Greg Murphy, MD, has introduced the EDUCATE Act to the U.S. House of Representatives. Murphy, a urologist, is a U.S. representative from North Carolina and the only practicing physician in Congress. The EDUCATE Act stands for Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education Act.
The new bill has several objectives. The EDUCATE Act, H.R. 7725, will stop federal funding of medical schools that have diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs or equivalents. The bill will also defund medical school programs that require students and staff to comply with specific ideologies or discriminate based on race or ethnicity. It further aims to stop discrimination in the medical school admissions process and to uphold color-blind admissions.
Currently, most medical schools select students partially or entirely based on race or other cultural factors instead of merit. The medical schools have lowered their admission standards in order to do this. During a talk show on CNN, Elon Musk recently said:
If the standards for passing medical exams and becoming a doctor or especially something like a surgeon, if the standards are lowered, then the probability that the surgeon will make a mistake is higher. They’re making mistakes in their exam. They may make mistakes with people, and that may result in people dying.
Stanley Goldfarb, MD, founder and chairman of Do No Harm, had this to say about current lowering of medical school admission and curriculum standards:
Allowing rebranded race-based discrimination to infiltrate medical education is dangerous for future doctors and patients alike. I have witnessed firsthand the alarming rate at which DEI ideology has spread through medical schools across the country. If we fail to stop it, we risk a generation of physicians ill-equipped to meet the needs of their patients.
View this 3.5-minute video of Dr. Murphy explaining why this Act is needed in order to preserve high-quality medical care in the U.S.
The infiltration of medical schools with the DEI ideology has been extensive and very harmful. The Hippocratic oath no longer resembles at all the oath of the 20th century and is no longer focused on doing no harm and not procuring abortion or euthanasia but only concerned with "diversity" of ethnicity, race and sexual ideology. It is a tragedy and will result in significant harm which is the antithesis of what medicine should be. I will certainly write my representative to support H.R. 7725. God, have mercy on us!
Ordinarily, I would be against the government regulating the medical schools. But in reality the U.S. government has already nationalized essentially the whole healthcare system. as we learned in the COVID disaster.