Heritage In Focus: SCHIP: No Child Left Off Welfare

[sacrux]

Ernest Istook is a traitor to the people.

[sevay86]

I love how free-market fanatics always portray Europe's health-care systems as socialist nightmares - the same "nightmares" that cost less than our system AND guarantees a greater coverage to its citizens!

[trump3teer]

You call getting care by some incompetent boob with a diploma coverage? Obviously you've never had your x-rays read (or misread) by a socialist so-called doctor.

Why is it when rich Europeans or Arabs need health care, they go to Johns Hopkins or the Mayo Clinic? Socialist medicine is fine for aches and pains but when people facing life or death have the funds to make a choice, America is where they come to save their lives.

[mechkatan]

What color is the sky in your world? Where I live, socialized insurance and socialized healthcare are two very different things. Socialized insurance makes sense, because free-market insurance has no incentive to cover the sick or the at risk.

[getplaning]

Not only has the Bush White House strongly resisted a bipartisan congressional effort to expand the Children's Health Insurance Plan to include 4 million uninsured American children, now our "compassionate conservative" president is forcing states to limit access for kids, too. For Bush, it doesn't matter that more U.S. children would go without healthcare. What matters is Bush's philosophical resistance to a popular government program that offers uninsured children a chance.

[tvgeezer]

Actually, if you look at the figures, away from the people trying to convince you to part with more of your paycheck, you find that more than half of the "25 million people without healthcare", a figure bandied about when tax increases are in the works, are already eligible for government programs that would address their needs, but they are not enrolled.

[frigoria]

Mat Strait you are disgusting!! Lets' explain you how to take health care from children with my 2,000 dollar in dentist work smile. How good is to be a privileged white republican in America. This video should be in the same category as Nazi propaganda about eugenics

[tvgeezer]

Very Good! Adolescent ranting is a good outlet for those repressed feelings about Daddy. At our next session we will try some regression therapy and you can roll around on the floor and kick your feet while repeating the phrase "You're not the boss of me!"

[frigoria]

You are so right Mr Scrooge.

Bah, humbug!

[johnedewey]

Right on, Heritage Foundation. Those whiny children need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

[theiamania]

This is the most disgusting channel I have ever seen on youtube. The heritage foundation is only in it for the money. They represent the insurance companies that rip you of for medical insurance, and they represent the weapons manufactures, that are earning billions on the war in Iraq

[tvgeezer]

Ah, more paranoid conspiracies from people who are convinced that *only they* can see the "real" truth.

[theiamania]

watch?v=5Z7pKBQmGAE

[dseilhan]

As for the "tax-deductible" argument, BIG WHOOP. So I have to wait the whole year to see any of that money back, is what you're telling me. Bills and rent need paid NOW. Groceries need bought NOW, not on April 15. All Bush can tell us is "we'll take it out of your taxes." THAT DOES NOT WORK. TRY AGAIN, MORONS.

[EvilMongrelMonkey]

If you can't afford healthcare, it's because you are a retarded moron who does not save, does not invest and is too damned lazy to learn new skills which will earn you more money. If you are still earning minimum wage or just above when you reach 30, you might as well take a long walk off a short pier as you are an idiot who's too stupid to live.

[themountainviewguy]

do you know anything about the subject or is your answer to everything to ignorantly shoot off your putrid mouth?

[dseilhan]

Now where the hell is that money supposed to come from? And how do we retain insurance if we actually get sick, as these are private companies and can refuse us, and there are pre-existing condition rules as well? It's all well and good to tell us to take care of ourselves but you know something, that doesn't prevent some of the worst illnesses and injuries. We don't make everything happen to ourselves, you know. We need more from you idiots than "you don't need welfare." We need ANSWERS.

[JustJoelyouassclown]

The money (for this proposed SCHIP expansion) was going to come from a .61 cent cigarette tax increase.

[dseilhan]

Oh, and I might add: It's all fine and well to tell people to buy their own policies, or that something or other is tax-deductible. See, I KNOW how insurance works. The only way working-class and poor people can come close to affording insurance is if we pay for major medical with a high deductible, which means anywhere from one grand to five grand a year has to come out of our pockets. Continued...

[dseilhan]

You know, illness has killed more people throughout human history than all the wars combined. Given that fact, I'm stunned that we don't think of healthcare as a national defense issue, and therefore under the purview of Congress. Disease will always be a greater enemy than other human beings. This is not about who deserves the bigger cookie. This is about right to life, which I thought the neoCONS favored? Guess not, when it's on their dime.

[CatAtomic99]

Typical Heritage Foundation corporate propaganda. They won't be happy until the American middle class is completely evaporated, and the country is comprised of two classes: the super wealthy, and the impoverished. They want to turn this country into Mexico.

These people are traitors-- remember their names.

[getplaning]

I got news for you Ernest. If you think this government represents us, the taxpayers, you're living in a dream world. And if you think the Heritage Foundation represents the American taxpayer, I've got a bridge in Minnesota for sale, cheap.

[getplaning]

Denying basic health care to children whose parents lack the means to pay for it, simply because you're afraid that success in insuring children might put government in a good light, is just morally wrong.

[Sarahmon612]

More right wing-nut nonsense. My husband and I are self employed and through a small business association I can get a pretty lame insurance policy that cost us over $900/month for family coverage. Guess what? Out out of pocket costs including dental come to about the same amount in addition to the premiums. That's well over $20,000/year. That is a tremendous amount of money for working people.

[yosamwpb]

you forgot to mention that your medical premiums are tax deductible as well as medical care costs over 7% of your income. You might research better coverage for less.

[getplaning]

All you save is the tax you would have paid on the income needed to pay for the health coverage and medical expenses. It doesn't add up to much.

[tvgeezer]

It's not even the 'small' cost in taxes. It is that there is a presumption on the part of government and much of the public that the gov't has a *right* to tap into your paycheck.

Worse still is the disingenuous way that this is being sold, FOR THE KIDS. Except that, in this fed funded, but state administered grant program, the definition of kid can and does include, in some states, 21 year old attending college, disabled retirees, and people who are not in this country illegally.

[taunarogers]

I am much more concerned about CORPORATE welfare, CORPORATE tax writeoffs and loopholes, CORPORATE outsourcing of American jobs (isn't that patriotic?) and CORPORATE ripoffs of ordinary working people.

[medicalex]

The Republicans want to cut healthcare for children in favor of more money for corporations. The "government" sponsored systems in the UK, Canada and France do a better job of caring for children. These systems all have lower Infant Mortality rates than the US. Infant Mortality Rate: US 6.4, UK 5, Canada 4.6, France 3.4