The 'C' in SCHIP Is for Children
At least it was supposed to be
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Rep. Joe Barton, ranking member on the Energy and Commerce Committee, has begun releasing daily factoids about the State Children's Health Insurance Program. It's a clever way to counter the lies Democrats are spreading about SCHIP. Today's fact shines the spotlight on the unintended use of SCHIP for adults:
According to the states’ budget projections, 13 will spend more than 44 percent of their SCHIP funds in 2008 on people who are neither children nor pregnant women.
Michigan tops the list with 71.6 percent of its SCHIP money earmarked for adults who have no kids. In New Mexico, 52.3 percent of the state’s SCHIP dollars will be spent on childless adults.
Imagine if each congressional office began doing something similar? It's going to take that level of energy and that amount of information to get the message across. Lazy reporters have accepted the Democrats' talking points as reality. Conservatives need to do a better job of communicating the facts.
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Conservatives need to do a better job of communicating the facts.
Communication is the key to our success or demise.
Unfortunately, the Democrat party controls most of the news media and the schools. They can lie, cheat, & steal and they get away with it because the press is so busy covering their tracks.
Our party must be MUCH BETTER at communicating conservatism to the public. Rush is the master of this but unfortunately he's not running for office. I think that if our leadership can solve this problem, we'd get a lot more accomplished.
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At least that's what the Cookie Monster sang to me when I was a kid.
And since the dems never seem to reach maturity, and thus cling to the need for everything to be provided by a government, "C" might as well be for Cookies, so the government can provide Cookies to all the children everday, ages 1-99, at 3:00, with a cold glass of (organic soy) milk.
Should kids be kicked off SCHIP as soon as they turn 18? Just wondering, since about 75% of high school seniors turn 18 during their senior year. Furthermore, about 75% of kids who have repeated one grade (sadly, not uncommon) will turn 19 while still in high school.
If you can't hack high school by the time you are nineteen maybe you should get a job and a GED.
Or maybe the government should pay for a nursemaid to hold the poor little dears hands while they cry because of those mean republicans.
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Kyle
Does this comment have any relevance to the question I asked? An 18 year old and a 19 year old are both equally adults. So, again, should all childless adults be kicked off of SCHIP?
the SCHIP program should be canceled. Period. No adults. No children. No pregnant women. Nobody.
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Sure, that's a reasonable position, which undoubtedly is shared by many people. However, given that the President and Congress both want SCHIP (in some form), should the rules of that program force high school seniors to lose their insurance because they turn 18?
It's "theirs" when they pay for it themselves.
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going from "for children" to "for people who were once children"