During last year’s debate over the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, President Bush was routinely excoriated in the media for saying that many states had diverted SCHIP funds from poor kids to children and adults from families with incomes exceeding $80,000. He was right, of course, as AP reports:
People earning as much as $295,000 are enrolled in a state health care […]
In addition to the tall tales she’s been telling about her foreign policy experience, Hillary has apparently been lying about the part she played in creating the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The Boston Globe reports the following:
Hillary Clinton, who has frequently described herself on the campaign trail as playing a pivotal role in forging […]
Well, as I noted a couple of days ago, Nancy Pelosi and her accomplices in the House of Representatives were determined to waste everyone’s time with another veto override vote on their fraudulent SCHIP bill.
As anyone with an IQ exceeding single digits could have predicted, this latest ploy failed. Here’s what Minority Leader John Boehner had to say the last time the […]
The Democratic congress, facing the lowest public approval ratings on record, has been trying to create the illusion that it is accomplishing something. Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi and her accomplices are just not capable of playing it straight.
Thus, they are going to try once again to override the President’s veto of their fraudulent SCHIP bill. This […]
At the Health Affairs blog, Sarah Dine affects mystification at the failure of this year’s SCHIP expansion effort:
The failure to reauthorize a SCHIP program that allows states to continue the flexibility represented by the Republican frontrunners’ home states and indeed many of the fifty states remains one of the great political mysteries of the year.
Despite […]
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Posted 20 December 2007
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President Bush has repeatedly said that he will veto any SCHIP expansion bill that fails to put low-income children first and relies on a tobacco tax for funding. Congressional Democrats nonetheless sent him another one that failed both tests, and he kept his promise:
In a statement notifying Congress of his decision [to veto the legislation], Bush said the bill was […]
Many advocates of government-run health care believe the SCHIP expansion debate augurs well for their cause. These folks are, however, kidding themselves. I expand on this in today’s American Spectator.
Anyone still naïve enough to believe that the SCHIP legislation being pushed by congressional Democrats is about children should read this in the NYT:
Eight senators told Democratic leaders this week that they could not support any bill if their states lost money for the coverage of parents.
Never mind that SCHIP is supposed to be a […]
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Posted 15 November 2007
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While our “leaders” in Congress debate expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, the voters of Oregon have resoundingly rejected a similar effort in their state. Per the WSJ:
Oregon voters passed judgment Tuesday on a plan that would have made their state children’s health insurance program “universal” … the referendum took a major shellacking, […]
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Posted 08 November 2007
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Another uproarious video from the satiric genius who produced last week’s brilliant send-up of the less-than-inspired congressional proposal to pay for SCHIP with a tobacco tax.
[HT InsureBlog]
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Posted 31 October 2007
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