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Advocates of expanded SCHIP funding have consistently misrepresented the reauthorization debate as a Manichean struggle between good and evil or, somewhat less stridently, an unfortunate clash of ideologies. In reality, the debate is about preventing the program from being used as a Trojan horse for socialized medicine.
Having learned that government-run health care won’t sell if it is honestly put before the public, its advocates are now using “the children” to implement Hillarycare on the sly. That’s why SCHIP’s latest iteration is designed to cover children who already have health insurance. As the Secretary of HHS puts it:
Most of the children they want to add to SCHIP already have private insurance. So these children would give up the private insurance they have now as they move to government health care.
And this isn’t some bogus statistic worked up by some soulless minion of the “health care industrial complex”:
The CBO recently estimated that as many as half of the children enrolling in SCHIP would drop their private coverage. The independent National Bureau of Economic Research put the crowd-out rate as high as 60 percent.
None of this matters to the evangelists of socialized medicine, of course. Nor are they especially concerned about cost. However, as a comical sop to those worried about the price tag associated with an expanded SCHIP program, they have proposed offsetting costs with a cigar tax.
Let’s hope President Bush has got that veto pen locked, loaded and aimed squarely at this fraudulent legislation.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
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“Most of the children they want to add to SCHIP already have private insurance. So these children would give up the private insurance they have now as they move to government health care.
And this isn’t some bogus statistic worked up by some soulless minion of the “health care industrial complex”:
The CBO recently estimated that as many as half of the children enrolling in SCHIP would drop their private coverage. The independent National Bureau of Economic Research put the crowd-out rate as high as 60 percent.
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The ONLY losers are the private insurance companies and the tabacco industry .
The money parents save could be put to better uses. One use is better food. Poor people do not have enough money to get the proper amounts of meats, vegatables, and fresh fruit.
When a child is growing … a health diet means a more health adult and in the long term means
less money spent on health care.
The expansion of the program will allow 4 million more kids to join SHIP and if you are right and 2 million drop private insurance. That means 2 million kids will now have health insurance that they currently do not have.
The ONLY losers are the private insurance companies. The money parents save could be put to better uses. One use is better food. Poor people do not have enough money to get the proper amounts of meats, vegatables, and fresh fruit.
Most kids without health insurance do not see a doctor for treatment but instead go to the ER. Treatment in a ER is far more expensive then if do by a GP or specialist. This also results in clugging the ER system with kids with minor medical programs which would be better served by
visiting a GP.
The kids will still go to the same Hospitals and Doctors as they currently do.
THIS IS NOT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE..
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None of this matters to the evangelists of socialized medicine, of course. Nor are they especially concerned about cost. However, as a comical sop to those worried about the price tag associated with an expanded SCHIP program, they have proposed offsetting costs with a cigar tax.
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You are incorrect. It is a 61 cent increase in the FEDERAL EXCISE TAX on all tabaco product (cigarretes, cigars, and chewing tabacco) from 39 cents a pack to $1.00 a pack.
If a increase in the tabacco tax cause some Americans to quit smoking and less people to start smoking .. Is that a good idea to have less people smoking …
My argument is based only on what is best in the long term for the average American.
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Let’s hope President Bush has got that veto pen locked, loaded and aimed squarely at this fraudulent legislation.
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Since the vote in the Senate Committe was 17 to 4 (all 11 democrats and 6 of 10 republician
voted for) then the odds the Senate can override the veto are very good.