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 […]
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SCHIP: ANOTHER SALVAGE ATTEMPT
SCHIP BROKE UP ON THE SHOALS OF PUBLIC OPINION
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 […]
BUSH VETOES SCHIP AGAIN
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 […]
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SCHIP FOR HILLARYCARE 2.0
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.
SCHIP Runs Aground on Adult Coverage
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 […]
SCHIP Torpedoed in Oregon
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, […]
Son of Dumb
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.Â
[HT InsureBlog]
SCHIP: More Games from Congress
In an apparent attempt to drive their job approval ratings below the historic nadir to which they have already sunk, Nancy Pelosi and her congressional accomplices produced another SCHIPÂ boondoggle yesterday.
In a typical piece of procedural skulduggery, the House “leadershipâ€? held the vote while many of the bill’s opponents were out of town. But that didn’t work. […]
An Idea So Dumb Only Congress Could Think of It
Amy Ridenour has posted an absolutely hilarious video that brilliantly captures the essential stupidity of financing SCHIP with a cigarette tax.  Do not watch this while drinking coffee, beer or any other liquid you don’t want to spit on your monitor.
The Real War on Children
One of the many disreputable tactics used by the advocates of SCHIP expansion has been to accuse their opponents of waging “a war on children.â€? But Mark Steyn points out that genuine concern for ”the children” would manifest itself as follows:Â
Try not to make the same mistake as most of the rest of the Western world and avoid bequeathing the next generation a system of […]