Americans support S-CHIP expansion in theory, but when it hits close to home and the rubber meets the road, they reject it soundly.

Especially when they learn exactly what the Dem S-CHIP plan involves. It’s one thing to ask people “are you for helping poor children get health care”. Who isn’t for that? But once you explain to them that the Dem plan covers 25 year old “children”, “poor” families earning $80,000 a year, etc, they’re not so much for S-CHIP expansion, at least not the Democrat version.

FYI, the SCHIP program is basically the same as Medicaid — full of red tape and restrictions on providing quality care. There’s lots of clinics that don’t take Medicaid and/or it’s SCHIP clones. Many severely limit access to care by one means or another. This is likely to get worse if the Dem’s expand SCHIP like they want to.

Putting more folks into the Medicaid treadmill is only going to make it harder for the truly needy on Medicaid to get timely care as the middle class starts cutting in line for their care.

Making it harder for needy kids to get care isn’t compassionate, it’s nuts…

Which is why it makes so much sense for the Dem’s to be doing what they are doing…

On November 26th, 2007 at 2:49 pm, feebiebabe said:
Just to clarify, this SFHP is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services and Medical (Medical is the CA equivalent to Medicaid).

50% federal money and 50% state money fund this program. immigration status doesn’t seem to apply.

And they wonder why they are running out of money here in California.

The first thing I thought of when reading the article. If they restricted this program to only those that could prove legal citizenship the costs would be reduced significantly. The only way to stop the flow of invaders is to stop the free goodies stolen from the pockets of hard working Americans. S-CHIP works in its current form and the Democrats have already been outed as using this as a socialized medicine “Trojan Horse” program. Expansion will only create another out of control entitlement program.

50% federal money and 50% state money fund this program. immigration status doesn’t seem to apply.

And they wonder why they are running out of money here in California.

Now your family can stay covered through age 24 with San Francisco Health Plan’s Healthy Kids & Young Adults program!

We offer complete medical, dental, and vision insurance to children and young adults at a very affordable cost – regardless of immigration status.

If you have any questions about Healthy Kids & Young Adults, contact our Enrollment Team.

And when I said the American people favored the S-CHIP expansion, I was referring to national polls, not the ballot initiative in OR.

Except national support is 15% at four times the poverty level. Pretty steep drop. Didn’t see numbers at 3x the poverty level, which makes me suspicious the MSM doesn’t want you to know. To get context, you have to know the questions asked, the order in which they were asked (priming) and so on, what wasn’t asked, how the reporter interpreted the answers, what the editor left out of the story…

Do I qualify for the Healthy Families Program?
The Healthy Families Program covers children who are:

Uninsured & under 19 years of age
California residents, US citizens, nationals, or eligible qualified immigrants Not eligible for no-cost Medi-Cal
Not covered by employer-sponsored health insurance in the last three months
Within the income guidelines
To find out if you qualify for the Healthy Families Program or another of our health care coverage programs, contact our Enrollment Team.

San Francisco Health Plan

“nationals or eligable qualified immigrants” READ BETWEEN THE LINES!!!

If you go on to City and County of SF website the “eligibility” requirements for Healthy Families don’t seem to EXCLUDE too many (e.g. illegal immigrants).

A poll of smokers: 100% say they do not support the tax on cigs to fund S-Chip.

Conclusion? Smokers hate children.