S-CHIP Trojan Horse gallops through the Senate; kiddie human shields in full force
Scroll down for updates…2:06pm Eastern. Harry Reid on the Senate floor now decrying Republicans for “jeopardizing the health of children…”
It’s a twofer tonight for the B.O. Republicans, who’ll be busy on the Senate floor approving Tim Geithner’s Treasury Secretary nomination — and also working with the Dems to pass the S-CHIP Trojan Horse and pave the way for universal health care mandates. Debate on the S-CHIP bill starts tonight per Harry Reid’s urging.
I reported on the House S-CHIP rollover two weeks ago — which saw 40 Republicans siding with Pelosi and the Dems. Today, George Will writes about the “mission gallop” I’ve been chronicling the last two years:
In 2007, after President Bush proposed a $5 billion increase in SCHIP, the House voted for a $50 billion increase but receded to the Senate’s proposed $35 billion, which became the definition of moderation. That compromise, which Bush successfully vetoed, at first would have extended SCHIP eligibility to some households with incomes up to 400 percent of the poverty line (up to $83,000 for a family of four), and more than $30,000 above the median household income ($50,233). So people with incomes higher than most people’s became eligible for a program supposedly for low-income people. Call that compassionate arithmetic.
The new expansion, which is vengeance for Bush’s veto, is mission gallop: It will make it much easier for some states to extend SCHIP eligibility to children from families earning up to $84,800. Furthermore, to make “poor” an extremely elastic concept, generous “income disregards” are allowed. Families can, depending on their state’s policies, subtract from their income calculation what they spend on rent or mortgage or heating or food or transportation or some combination of these. So children in some families with incomes well over $100,000 will be eligible.
Grace-Marie Turner, a student of health-care policies, says this SCHIP expansion is sensible — if your goal is quickly to get as many people on public coverage as possible and to have children grow up thinking that it is normal for them to get their health insurance from the government. That is the goal.
More from AP:
When Congress sought to renew the program in late 2007, Bush said it needed to be refocused on the working poor. So he vetoed the first bill that lawmakers sent him. Lawmakers went back to work and agreed to limit federal dollars to health coverage for families earning less than three times the federal poverty level.
But Bush vetoed that bill, too.
Now that income limit is gone in the legislation moving through Congress. States can used SCHIP to cover children of any income level. When they do move higher than three times the poverty level, states will get the payment rates they normally get through Medicaid instead of the rate they get for SCHIP, which is higher…The Congressional Budget Office projects that the extra spending would allow 4 million uninsured children to gain coverage through Medicaid and SCHIP through 2013. Another 2.3 million will join the program after previously getting private insurance.
Yup. You read it here first.
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Predictably, the Big Nanny universal health care activists have brought out the kiddie human shields again:
Young people are using their artwork to pressure the new administration to pass a children’s health care bill. Nearly 400 students across the country submitted original artwork to the Health Rights Organizing Project, a coalition of community organizations advocating for health care reform. Sixty-one of these pieces — in the theme of promoting health care for all — are being displayed in the America’s Future starts with Healthy Children art exhibit in Washington, D.C.
The organization unveiled the art exhibit last Friday on Capitol Hill. A second unveiling ceremony takes place today at Union Station’s West Hall in Washington, D.C.
“The art exhibit is a chance to bring the public’s attention to health care reform. We need to re-authorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program,” says Gerald Smith, co-committee chair for the Health Rights Organizing Project’s SCHIP campaign. “It’s not really health care reform, it’s re-authorizing a successful program and putting a down-payment on comprehensive health care reform to ensure everyone in the country has health care, including all children.”
A sample:
Make sure you re-read the title of that artwork: “Only Healthy Children are Able To Carry on America’s Future.”
Of course, if Nancy Pelosi has her way, there will be fewer children — healthy or not – to worry about in the future.
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Will the baby in the upper right hand corner of the artwork mantage survive BO’s Amerikkka?
Unbelievable. Enough already. We’ll have healthy children. Broke, healthy children. Broke healthy children who depend on Chairman Mao (oops, President Obama) for their every want and need.
Looking for leadership in the once-hallowed halls of Congress.
Fugheddaboutit!
Does this mean government provided health care for all the babies abortionists don’t kill?
That’s no baby just a clump of cells.
/major sarc
So in this context, fetuses are children, but in other contexts they are not. It’s all about context. I see.
I was watching Hannity he had on Rush last week,and replayed last night. And Rush said if they pass socialized- universal health care, it is game over.
George Will? I thought he left for the Dark Side…
Haven’t they left out those “poor” families that have to spend money on Trust Fund Lawyers, and SAT tutors, and LaCrosse Lessons? To say nothing of grooms for the horses, and designer polo gloves and all the other necessities of life – before – insurance for the kiddies?
We have all now learned from our friends on the left that cell clumps do not become scientists, artists, athletes, etc.
I read the Philippine Daily Enquirer online every morning. Today there was a front page about Dear Leader and his first weeks’ accomplishments in office.
Not a mention of FOCA.
I suppose abortion money for a country that’s 80 Catholic wouldn’t go over very well….
Hunker down you Vichy Republicans! Keep up the good work. We working Americans really need another big heaping pile of government tyranny. Thank you in advance!
This is the most dangerous grab by the democrats in a while. As Rush said, this is a game-ender. Once the federal government get control of childrens’ healthcare, the rest is just a matter of time. They already have the older folks and poor folks. Then say hello to UK and Canadian style care, aka rationing.
It will pass, by the way.
Of course, if Nancy Pelosi has her way, there will be fewer children — healthy or not – to worry about in the future.
So they’re going to control health care costs by controlling the number of children eligible for the program-and by controlling eligibility, they mean controlling births. Central planning at it’s finest.
I wonder how long it will take for them to get to a Chinese style 1 or two child-per-family policy to combat global warming and rising health care costs?
Prediction – mid 21st century the US and China will swap places. They will be a Capitalist Democracy, we will be a Stalinist dump.
Sorry…
The good folks at Powerline have charted the explosion, far beyond any in history, in debt vs GDP, since the Demonrats/Marxists seized Congress.
Check this out.
The money supply in the last few months has now exploded at a level not seen in US history.
In parts of the UK, the government is now over 70% of the total economy.
Obama and Stretch have a tough target to pass that, but it looks like they are on track.
BTW, I can’t see how a ballooning of the money supply, even if we are in a recession now with low inflation or even deflation, can’t result in a Zimbabwe style hyper-inflation at some point.
Two-fer: If over half the populace is on the dole from Uncle Sugar, Dems have a natural majority for eternity. Plus, they’ll be no money left for the evil war machine. When the middle class is destroyed, no need to disguise the Marxism anymore.
Kinda funny how people who can afford gold spinners, upscale cell phones, giant flat screen TVs, and designer kitchens have to make the government rob other people to pay for their health care.
VERY good question!
I’m wondering if saving makes any sense, or if I should put my money in food and weapons before inflation hits.
The RINOs actually believe this will ensure their re-election. What idiots.
So according to schip, I am poor, but according to the coming tax increases I am rich. How will business react? But cutting insurance to thier employees kids of course.
Not with hyperinflation!
How in the heck can a child be 30 years old? I ask this because my understanding is that a 30 year old could obtain benefits from this Communist supported bill
I knew it was bad, but about 75% in money supply?
eyeing the exit
Thats 75% increase in money supply, with more on the way.
Drip, Drip, Drip, Drip, Slooooow Drip, Drip, Drip.
I thought the dems. didn’t approve of water torture.
Oh good sweetness, I am back on the dole!
As a single father, I am going to start applying for EVERY benefit I can now. Ims gonna be getting me some govment cheese reals soons like.
Oh yeh…. giggity giggity
Kids do the darndest things. And so smart too! Just imagine the little tykes getting together on their own to lobby congress for Universal Health Care with their artwork. Their parents must be so proud.
That is were a large part of my savings/disposable income is going right now.
PowerLine is an excellent resource.
An increase in the size of the money supply like that can’t have good results.
Over at Gulf Coast Pundit ( banned from Michelle Malkin poster “Buckaroo”, who still blames MM for McCain losing (don’t worry, I slammed him on it today) posts there, but mainly because the mod doesn’t ban too many people (Buckaroo made no friends calling Second Amendment believers “gun nuts”, and his tireless defense of Juan McAmnesty got on people’s nerves, but he is tolerated) has special forums for survival and guns.
Good people, ex-Marines, National Guard medic with a son in the IDF, an ex-tanker, ex Navy F-4 jock, and an emphasis on guns and survival and politics.
Me, personally, I was in the military, but not trained in combat arts, I have four young children, I’m now 44, if Obama does what I think is entirely possible (one party totalitarian state, like Zimbabwe or Cuba), I may try to take advantage of in-laws who migrated legally from Mexico, and take my family and leave. Across the river to start, but not as an end point. Chile, maybe Ireland, nowhere near as good or free as the USA is now, but if Nancy Pelosi has the Pol Pot tendencies I fear, well, nothing great lasts forever.
OK, this may count as buttering up the hostess, but:
a thread in which I skillfully rebut the notion that Michelle Malkin is responsible for all the coming horrors of the Obamanation for pointing out McCain was a global warming hysteric, a Gitmo/waterboard hysteric and almost as por-amnesty as Obama, which eliminated major points of difference McCain could have used to defeat the ObaMarxist.
/Eddie Haskell mode off.
That’s my thinking. Food, guns and reloading components. I figure if things go the way I’m guessing, either the gov’t will pay my mortgage for me (assuming I lose my job), or the bank will have failed and it won’t matter anyway. So if I can feed and protect myself and my family, we may come out on the other side in relatively good shape.
And if we lose the house, we can take our food and guns with us. Maybe go to Florida and move into a foreclosed house.
I say this in all sincerity, should the Marxists take this country over and the RINOs capitulate further, I have no course but to fight…. and I’m not referring to dialogue. I so wish these thoughts were not in my head.
So the Dems say that if you make just under $85K you are poor and if you make over $150K you are rich and ill get higher taxes … that’s a pretty small range for BO’s “middle class” …
“Taxation Without Representation – Part II” … and we all know where that led …
ill = will … sorry about that …
Don’t forget gold and silver! Even in small quantities it may prove extremely useful, and profitable.
I think you had it right the first time. It should make all of us ill when their policies are laid out quite plainly but the sheeple in America are so uninformed, uncaring and just plain stupid that they really don’t care. And for those of you who live in LA, SF, Seattle,NY, Philly, etc who have a clue I don’t mean you.
I still believe that most people are over-insured. If one uses health insurance to cover the cost of a doctor visit for a cold, then one is over-insured. Isn’t insurance supposed to be for procedures that would financially ruin a family? Simple doctor visits should not be covered by insurance!
So the unhealthy kids, the ones that special ed teachers like myself devote our careers towards helping, are what – empty shells that’ll never amount to anything?
Someone needs to inform the crowd behind this mess of the accomplishments of ne’er-do-wells like Helen Keller, Stevie Wonder, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, et. al. all of whom suffered from some degree of impairment, ranging from a learning delay to an orthopedic handicap, yet achieved far more than their healthy contemporaries!
I’d like to say thanks in advance to all of you for paying for my families health insurance. Now I can take all of that extra money that’s being unnecessarily deducted from my paycheck and go buy lots of stuff I can’t afford, and wait for you to bail me out of that. =D
/sarc
Keep in mind that the Bolsheviks have to account for state and local militias and the patriotic military itself. Long before we become Zimbabwe, there will be a reckoning. I don’t think BOs brownshirts will be able to cope.
Make sure you call me when it’s time.
(the chair is against the wall) (John… has a long mustache)
Semper Fi Brother
The code should be “obama is wearing pick underware”
May this is what they mean by “shrinking middle class?”
BLASPHEMER!!! Geeet Heeem!
Only until 12 weeks and then zeroangel says we can name it and become emotionally attached.
I don’t think I would like to be known as “Clump-of-Cells Grandma” instead of BabiesGrandma.
Yikes!
Excellent!!! So we are now going to cover a better, more educated, class of illegal aliens. I was really worried some of the illegals in the country might not be able to get their anchor babies’ health insurance covered by the American taxpayer. Whewww! Tragedy averted. Thanks congress. Freaking idiots, lets just eliminate the middleman and just give me the address of a local derelict/illegal alien of where send my paycheck. Makes it easier that way.
One reality here is lots of clinics (such as mine), don’t take or severely limit access to care for new patients on Medicaid and SCHIP like programs. Clinics typically ration the few they do see to a limited percent of clinic time per month. There could be 10 or 10,000 people calling, only 10 might be seen.
Another chunk of reality here is payment to the clinics for Medicaid/SCHIP care hovers around 30 to 40 percent of regular fees. It frequently cost a clinic more to see one of these patients than just paying them $10 to go away.
So adding millions of kids and adults to SCHIP may be good for politicians, but it’s net effect is likely to be to increase the misery and backlog of people trying to get rationed red-tape ridden care.
The PRESSSSident, if they were interested in the truth on this issue, ought to be making a few phone calls to clinics in their neighborhood to see how long it takes an SCHIP/Medicaid patient to get seen, if they are even seeing these patients. Then figure if that number is going to double or triple, figure it’s going to be at least 2 or 3 times longer…
If the politicians were interested in quality of care, they’d reduce the number on Medicaid, and increase reimbursements so there wouldn’t be so much rationing of care going on.
Actually, the best solution would be to just allow clinics to deduct the cost of unreimbursed charity care from income. Then you’d have clinics falling all over themselves to provide charity care. With reimbursements at 40% or less, being able to deduct charity care nets out about the same as current Medicaid payment schedules — only there’d be no red tape and there would be incentives to provide care, rather than ration it. Many clinics might just opt for charity care over Medicaid or SCHIP.
Apparently this sort of out of the box thinking is too complicated for the GOP to get a handle on — go figure…
Count me in along with Phiberop when it the time finally comes to stand and fight the fascism of the Marxist. That’s if our Marines don’t mind an old flyboy fighting beside them.
Conservatives have lost in the ballot box (voter fraud/ACORN), courts (liberal judges/ACLU), and have absolutely no voice in government (thank you RINOs). We have very few options available to defend the US Constitution and founding principles of this once great Nation. Give me liberty or give me death!
It wounds my heart with a monotonous languor.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
Not taking them to the doc every time they get a boo-boo on their knee is bad but killing them is okay through legalized and tax-payer subsidized abortions? My head would spin on that one alone but to see what they are getting away with …
Well, all I can say is you have a place to stay in the Philippines with me if it gets that bad, though if you got room and a spot for me in the line, I fear I may have to sign up with the Marines and the Flyboy here.
How we ever let it come to this I do not know, but no matter what route must be taken to get us out of it, it will not be pretty.
Semper Fi my brother. I too am scared about the future of this country. For those who believe that this course can be reversed – can’t happen without a repeat of standing on Bunker Hill. People, read your history – the Declaration of Independence lists the Colonies grievances against King George, just sub Pelosi/Reid for King George.
every nation which has been the dynastic ruler of it’s generation from egypt to rome to britain to the u.s.s.r. to the u.s. and china faces it in the future has been destroyed from within. even religious dynasties have collapsed due to internal decay (catholicism and someday islam) as the people begin to question their leader’s morals, intellect, and vision. communism is a similar religion or ideology, and is nearing it’s end, catholicism fell during ww2 when it’s leaders sided with mussolini and hitler and ignored the genocide of the jews and poor, and islam will fall as the people decide taliban law is unworkable in the computer age, it will relegate your people to poverty, disease and hardship.