Which is what we have been saying all along. SCHIP expansion was never about the children, it was about universal healthcare. Once the program goes into law, this country doesn’t cut back, they expand….Michelle provides the audio of Vilsack describing how S-CHIP will help achieve those universal entitlement ends:
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Transcript:
“I think there is going to be a commitment to universal coverage. I don’t think it’s necessarily going to be a sector by sector process. I think you either need to go in whole hog or not. We tried to sort of squeeze the middle here with doing children and doing seniors, and trying to squeeze it. If anything happens, it would more likely look something like this: you would extend eligibility for children from 200% of poverty to 300% of poverty, and create resources to insure the parents of those children.”
Bryan has more, as well as Right Angles
I do have a question for the idiots who think their boss is going to continue offering them private insurance once they get this universal crap through (if they manage to pull it off). Here’s my question. If you could keep the money that you’re currently paying for someone else’s health insurance because the government will pick up the slack, why wouldn’t you do so? Perhaps another way to word it would be “Do you think your boss is going to continue providing you with health insurance after his taxes are raised to pay for insurance for someone else?”
S-CHIP just another way to force kids despite parential objections to be shot full of ritlin and other nasty drugs:-?