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October 16, 2007
Children's Health Fact of the Day
From the Republicans' House Energy and Commerce Committee Website:
A few other Schipp facts:
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that 50 percent of the upper-income enrollees added to SCHIP under the Democrats’ proposal currently have private health insurance but will drop their current health insurance coverage and shift these costs to the taxpayers.
and...
People who broke the law to come to America aren’t eligible for welfare, including Medicaid and SCHIP, and nearly everyone thinks that’s a good idea except Democrats in Washington. They want an SCHIP extension bill that removes the pesky requirement for checking the identity and citizenship of people who apply for Medicaid and SCHIP benefits.
H.R. 976 says that simply writing down a Social Security number is good enough to prove you are a citizen, although the commissioner of the Social Security Administration says emphatically that Social Security numbers are laughable as proof of citizenship because thousands are issued every year to non-citizens. Moreover, the Democrats’ SCHIP bill doesn’t even require that an applicant flash an ID to demonstrate that he or she could be the actual owner of the number.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that erasing the mechanism that reserves welfare for Americans instead of illegal aliens will cost U.S. taxpayers an extra $3.7 billion in federal spending and $2.8 billion in added state spending.
No need to make a fuss over $6 billion in American taxpayer dollars for healthcare for illegal immigrants, by golly, let's get some free government health care going here... because pulling your own teeth with a pair of pliers sure does sound like fun!
Yeah! Let's do it for the children!
According to the states’ budget projections, 13 will spend more than 44 percent of their SCHIP funds in 2008 on people who are neither children nor pregnant women.
Michigan tops the list with 71.6 percent of its SCHIP money earmarked for adults who have no kids. In New Mexico, 52.3 percent of the state’s SCHIP dollars will be spent on childless adults.
Let's do it for the poor children...
Census Bureau data (2004-2006) show that 1 in 5.5 children living under 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level don’t have health care coverage even though they’re eligible for government programs.
Republicans propose requiring states to cover at least 90 percent of these neediest kids before trying to find any more. The Democrats’ plan has no requirement to cover the poorest kids first. Instead, it just leaves them behind.
Posted by LindaSoG at October 16, 2007 07:24 AM
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My hide is officially chapped Again. I am So done with our spending so much of our money on Mexico's poor and disenfranchised.
Don't get me wrong. I know we have to do Something about the problem, and children are children....but when does Los Estados Unidos hold Mexico responsible for the problems that they have created and then exported?
Quick, Wollf, change subject. Oh yeah, is that Brit lady Tough or What? Pulled Seven of her Own teeth? Ouch.
Wollf
Posted by: howlsatmoon at October 16, 2007 09:23 PM
Wollfe,
Its not only the illegal aliens that will be eligible that ticks me off.
Its supposed to be for the most needy children and they will be passed over for the middle class, and a large portion will go to adults.
Its bullshit, pure and simple political fuckery at the taxpayer's expense.
Posted by: LindaSoG at October 17, 2007 08:34 PM
Linda, I was cowardly. I waited til I knew you were fast asleep to comment again. (yes, kidding),
But this issue definetly sets you off.
Wollf, Duly impressed with Passion. And, I stand corrected in that I made my point a one trick pony, not looking past My hot button issue.
People who can "do", should "do". People, particularly children who "can't" must be taken care of......
Thanks. I needed to be taken to task on that one. And, on the bright side, I now have a particularly poetic turn of phrase to add to my business meeting tomorrow regarding some quetionable contributions.....ha,
Wollf
Posted by: howlsatmoon at October 18, 2007 01:32 AM