One of the most egregious frauds ever committed against American taxpayers is CHIP. This program, originally designed as a way of providing health coverage for low-income children, has been perverted into a Trojan horse for socialized medicine. And many “journalists” are helping to pull this counterfeit beast through the gates. Ronald Brownstein, via Economist’s View, does his best to abet the deception:
House and Senate Democrats have approved budgets providing up to $50 billion in increased CHIPs funding over the next five years … to cover not only the current case load but as many as two-thirds of the nation’s remaining uninsured children …
Insuring the kids? What’s not to like? Well, the money isn’t being used for “uninsured children.” As I point out here, much of the CHIP money is being diverted to adult care. But Brownstein neglects to mention that inconvenient fact. Instead, he provides political partisanship:
In his latest budget, Bush proposed spending only about $6.3 billion. That’s like a parent offering to buy a child one pair of shoes all the way through high school.
President Bush is the villain of the piece. How unusual. In reality, Bush has been attempting to redirect CHIP back to poor children. But he’s up against an opposition party that isn’t really interested in low-income kids. What they want is a way inside the health care citadel so they can pillage the taxpayers.
It’s a disgrace that “journalists” like Brownstein are aiding them in this fraud.
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