Bad Legislation #1- SCHIP
While I don’t plan to go back to writing two or three entries a week, I cannot continue to sit by silently while the American public continues to be brainwashed and coerced by the Democrats and the media into supporting misleading and dangerous legislation.
SCHIP
Not so bad, even in my opinion, to provide a way for low-income families to purchase health insurance for their children. But, the current attempt by the Democrats to extend coverage to “œeven more children and families” is, at the least, misleading. Truth be told, this is an attempt to make the American public comfortable with the idea of the government providing health care. Why else would this legislation open up enrollment to families whose income reaches $90,000 per year?
The media has done an excellent job of comparing apples to elephants, as they continue to exclaim that the cost of this proposal is far less than the proposed budget to continue the war in Iraq. These two issues have nothing in relation to each other besides the fact the Democratic leadership is attempting to hold the war funding hostage unless the President pony’s up for the health care. (And we all know that that tactic hasn’t worked in the past.)
The point is that this is a bad bill, for everyone. What if you are a family of four or more, struggling to live on an income of $80, 000 a year? (And since when is $80,000 a year a struggle? Please, send me an example ““ I don’t get it.) What if you elect to give up your private coverage? What happens when you are even more successful and begin earning more? Do you go back? NO! You continue to stay with the cheaper government plan, which means soon families earning well over $100,000 a year must be grandfathered into the program. Pretty soon employers begin to stop offering health coverage to workers who qualify for government programs. Now what? You have no more choice. And we now have socialized health care. TA DAA!
This bill is an attempt to ease the American public into socialized medicine. And that is bad for everyone. Just ask the Canadians, or the English, or the French, etc”¦ I have a sister-in-law who has been permanently physically disabled by the incompetent and over-extended English system. Due to legal protections and restrictions, she is unable to sue for any reasonable damages and must settle for being a lifetime dependent on the state. We don’t want this. We don’t need this. We cannot afford to become comfortable with the idea.
Yes, offer temporary assistance to children whose parents cannot or will not provide for them. Leave the rest of us alone.
GOPMOM
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FIrst of all, welcome back. I missed our conversations and I wondered where you went. Hope all is well.
But, honestly, I question your basic assumptions. Health care is awful in America. 45 million Americans have no health care. When they are sick, what do they do? Go to the Emergency Room?
I suspect both of us are fortunate enough to get access to health insurance. I’m on Blue Cross which provides generous coverage for me and my family. For that I am extremely fortunate and greatful. My family hasn’t had a lot of intensive problems with Blue Cross, but when we do its a lengthy and complex set of phone calls to get treatments paid for. We are lucky. I’m guessing this is true with you as well. Don’t know, mind you, only guessing.
On the other hand, you and I are in the half of the country that benefits from Health Insurance. For the other HALF of the country that have inadequate, over-priced or no insurance medical costs are otherworldly. My daughter spent a week and a half in a program through our hospital. If I had no insurance, I would e makng payments on this trip for the rest of my life. The costs of medical care are equally unsupportable. And the increases in rates and payments to maintain the system is also unsupportable.
So, you ask, why should anyone making 80K get health insurance. I agree, that might be too high a barrier. I do know that a family making 80 K and getting hit with a hospital bill is unable to meet that payment. That’s roughly what my position would have been if I hadn’t have had insurance. The people that make 80K that have no insurance are the very entrepeneurs that your party loves to bring up whenever there is a tax break for the Waltons. These are the self-employed, the creative jobs, the piece-meal workers. These people can afford to buy private insurance for their families, but the costs for an individual that self-insures are enormous. And where do those profits go? Health insurance companies bottom line.
Is this legislation the first step toward socialized medicine? I wish it were. Health Insurance is the #2 most porfitable industries in the US(right behind the energy companies) and that profit is there because of the excessive fees, attempts to reduce costs(cutting patients from service) and overpricing.
And then we could talk about the Pharmeceutical industry too. But not today.
Socialized medicine may not be perfect, but our current system will soon not support either of our incomes or positions in life. We are the only developed nation in the world that doesn’t regulate health care, and because of it, the healthcare that we have is insanely expensive.
Bad Legislation, eh? I, for one, can’t wait for scary Hillary Clinton to bring her socializing comrades in to our country.
Visit England and get sick.
How much are the wingnuts paying you to spout this propaganda bullcrap? I have read some fairly incoherent babble in my day, by your attempt at political commentary falls somewhere between assinine and moronic. Don’t worry, though. I’m sure all the like minded bushbots love your spew, just don’t count on influencing anybody who does not already agree with you.
“Visit England and get sick.”??? Is that your idea of an insult?
I applaud Gregg M.’s thoughtful, measured response to your vitriol, but I was thinking along the lines of “Eat sh!t and die.” as an appropriate response.