Minorities and discrimination around the world

This seems to be a problem everywhere in the world. If one would step back just a little bit and think about this, it's obvious that we humans still have a lot of issues with race and of course, religion. In the 21st century, some of the most financially and culturally advanced nations (such as Italy) can't stand people with a culture or background other than themselves. I understand that health and health care access might be the most indicator of a quality of life. But when discrimination dominates a society, it comes in a big package of all social and economic issues. As one of the major points I learned during the public health program, health and health care should be approached in unique ways specific to each society and culture. As we learned, we have a lot of issues to argue about if we wanted to increase the quality of life, for example, for the minorities in Rome. Or may be we can combine all the issue and just work on discrimination.

On the same subject, I was watching Bill Maher show the other day, and he was saying that a lot of politicians are reporting concerns about the new health care bill. Their concern is to make sure that the new bill would not provide health care for the illegal immigrants. Because no working person would want to pay for a sick person who does not have legal documentation. Another guest brought up a good question when he said, "so what are we going to do with a bleeding Mexican worker in front of the emergency room"?