When President Obama leaves office there will almost certainly be efforts to ascertain the impact of our first black president on the black community. A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help, according to an analysis of census data by The New York Times.... Dr. Aaron Shirley, a physician who has worked for better health care for blacks in Mississippi, said that the history of segregation and violence against blacks still informs the way people see one another, particularly in the South, making some whites reluctant to support programs that they believe benefit blacks.... Because we live in a segregated country, the people who must bear the burden of the uninsured black poor will ultimately be other black people.
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