[tennteacher]

This is a transparent push for incrementally imposed socialized medicine for “children” up to 24 years of age, whose families’ earnings are up to four times the poverty level. At the expense of what and whom?

This may be an issue for AARP.

[hocndoc]

Yep, Yep!

We already have at least a third of our kids covered by some sort of Government insurance.

The Dems have - with the help of the MSM and my own AMA, Texas MA, and American Academy of Family Physicians and TAFP dues - framed the issue as “for children” and “the President will shut down CHIP.”

No, the Dems who insist on growing government beyond what we can pay and who want to control all health care financing in hopes of controlling those who receive health care, are going to shut down CHIP if they insist on a $60 Billion dollar bill with this Bill!

[Froufrou]

So what if we herd 'em up and sign 'em up? I've got news: the cost of that little Medicaid letter is too much to be certifying healthy people who don't need it. There's plenty of time and money to certify the uninsured when they need it.

Medicaid was intended to provide prenatal care and immunizations and checkups for children. But I'm sure the Dems will find a way to screw it up for the rest of us.

[cosine]

And all they care about is having insurance. Which is not medical care and which you can’t get with SCHIP because the states determine physician/hospital reimbursement and they set at way below commercial prices which, in some cases, is way below cost.

So they’ve got insurance but no medical care. The goal is to destroy private medicine, not to provide more medical care for more people.