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Ronald Brownstein doesn't mention SCHIP's expansion would cover illegals and "children" up to age 25. In effect, its HillaryCare on the installment plan. By blowing his stack at President Bush, he loses all credibility as a dispassionate political analyst. There are sound reasons to oppose government run health care and none of them involve, as his inflammatory headline misleadingly puts it, "stealing health care from babies." That kind of low blow beneath the belt is exactly what discredits SCHIP proponents like Brownstein.

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1 posted on 08/01/2007 1:06:16 AM PDT by goldstategop
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The more I think about it the more I believe in health savings accounts to pay for private insurance. Government interference would disrupt everything, drive up costs, and force doctors out of medicine.


2 posted on 08/01/2007 1:27:25 AM PDT by TheThinker (Those who rewrite history doom others to repeat the past.)
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Not having health insurance, especially when you’re young isn’t a crime... It’s normal... Obviously they feel their money is better spent elsewhere. Yet government can step in and take from me by force of law to give to them...
3 posted on 08/01/2007 2:30:13 AM PDT by DB
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I thought this was interesting, you may be paying the AMT (tax), and still qualify for the Schip program:

Now, the S-CHIP program was originally designed to help poverty level children, something I think we can all get behind. But who will be the beneficiary of this increased spending under the new plan? A family of 4, including adults, who make up to $81,000 per year or 400% above poverty level could qualify to be covered under this program. It looks to me more like a gradual spread of socialized medicine rather than helping the truly needy in our country. Ironically enough, under the Democrat’s expanded S-CHIP program, 70,000 American families would be “poor enough” to qualify for S-CHIP while at the same time among “the rich” who have to pay the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).


4 posted on 08/01/2007 2:31:57 AM PDT by kjhm
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Considering that Bush himself enacted into law the largest expansion of government-run healthcare in history with Medicare Prescription Drug coverage, he really has no credibility in opposing SCHIP if he attacks it from this angle.

I predict Bush will sign this bill. He's never seen a spending bill that he didn't like, and being the illegal aliens' best friend, would only be more than happy to do anything to make their stay in the USA more of a pleasant one.

5 posted on 08/01/2007 3:09:34 AM PDT by pnh102
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Stealing Health Care From Babies (Ronald Brownstein Blows His Stack Alert)

another socialist advocating the US taxpayers fund and support illegals up to age 25.....

what a true a-hole!!!!


6 posted on 08/01/2007 3:30:23 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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If a scumbag like ronnie was REALLY serious about wanting to cover children and not open America up to more abusive illegal aliens, he would be fighting to keep these burglars out. He would be talking about how we have limited funds that can ONLY be spent on Americans to solve this problem. But a scumbag does as a scumbag is.


7 posted on 08/01/2007 4:45:03 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (The Islamists plan to kill us.The Democrats and the ratmedia are helping them. Ft Dix proves it!)
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The government can “help” the children get health insurance by simply lowering and simplifying the tax code for their parents. But that’s too logical for the gubmint.


9 posted on 08/01/2007 4:52:07 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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Ron, are we talking about good health care, or
King-Drew/King-Harbor/whatever-they-call-the-place-next quality health care? Because if we’re talking about “Killer King” quality health care, trust me, we’re doing babies a favor by stealing it from them.


10 posted on 08/01/2007 4:53:25 AM PDT by RichInOC (Stupidity is its own punishment...but sometimes it causes collateral damage.)
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It`s Ron BrownSTAIN


12 posted on 08/01/2007 5:05:29 AM PDT by thepresidentsbestfriend (Richard Land for President of the US of A)
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Children up to age 25, that just kills me.


13 posted on 08/01/2007 5:09:04 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.)
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Under this plan, a 24-year old illegal alien is a “child” who gets free healthcare. No f**king way!


14 posted on 08/01/2007 5:11:53 AM PDT by montag813
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I don’t get it. How can it be “stealing” if the president merely opposes the expansion of the program? Simply opposing the expansion of coverage does nothing to take away what coverage is already in place. Not only that, but the proposed expansion of the health coverage would actually take away private insurance for large numbers of children and replace it with government-run insurance. And the author thinks that the president is “stealing”? It makes no sense.


16 posted on 08/01/2007 12:16:41 PM PDT by blitzgig
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