Heritage In Focus: SCHIP: No Child Left Off Welfare

Ernest Istook talks about SCHIP

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[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!

[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.

[sacrux]

Ernest Istook is a traitor to the people.

[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.

[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.

[frigoria]

You are so right Mr Scrooge.

Bah, humbug!

[theiamania]

watch?v=5Z7pKBQmGAE

[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.

[tvgeezer]

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

[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!"

[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.