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).
If you want money taken from "us" to pay for health care for poverty-level children, why bother with a government middle-man?
Why not just have the parents of these poverty-level children (or, since some of these "children" are legally adults, the "children" themselves) come stick a knife in our ribs to take the money directly?