Yesterday, I pointed out that the SCHIP tobacco tax is a device designed to force poor people to buy insurance for members of the middle class. Anyone still doubting that should consider our President’s latest executive order:
President Barack Obama made more children from middle-class families eligible for government health insurance Thursday by lifting a directive imposed by his predecessor.
Obama’s “predecessor” tried to reserve SCHIP funds for the low-income kids at whom the program was originally aimed. He wanted the states to cover poor kids before they started covering middle class families:
Under the [Bush] restrictions, at least 95 percent of poor children eligible for Medicaid or SCHIP had to already be in those programs before states could begin using federal funds to cover higher-income children.
But our new President has different goals. He and his accomplices in Congress are using the SCHIP program as a Trojan Horse for universal, government-run health care.
Not that they care about health care any more than they care about poor kids. For them it’s just another vote buying scheme.
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Yes, it’s about vote-buying, but in Obama’s case it’s even worse–he’s a true believer: a genuine egalitarian. “Share the wealth” is what he really wants to do.
Posted 09 Feb 2009 at 1:36 pm ¶He’s worse than I feared and moving faster than I imagined. What’s going to stop him? There are not enough Republicans in congress to provide an effective opposition.
“There are not enough Republicans …”
And those few are conspicuously lacking in testicular fortitude.
Posted 09 Feb 2009 at 8:25 pm ¶Post a Comment