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thatcrazycajunRep. Tom Price (R-GA 6th), in today's edition of my local paper, responds here to an editorial by the board demanding that Congress act to save SCHIP-funded state health insurance programs like PeachCare. He clings to the GOP party line that the bill whose veto by Junior Bush was upheld last week would drive millions of kids whose parents could well afford private health insurance onto government coverage and push us down the road to "Hillarycare."
He's introduced a new bill he insists is more reasonable than the last one that would provide "premium assistance" to the families too well off to qualify for Medicare/Medicaid but not enough to afford private coverage on their own. Oh, sure, Tom, let's send them to the same greedy, heartless bastards who caused the problem in the first place! These would be the same private insurers notorious for dropping millions of policyholders off coverage at a moment's notice for no better reason than that the company's bean-counters consider them bad health risks, right? And not just kids, either, but adults as well.
And twice he harps on how his proposal supposedly solves the problem "without a tax increase." Now we get to the real reason the Repugs oppose expanding SCHIP: Money. God forbid the government should raise taxes to help people who truly need it in a way that can't be overridden by an insurance-company executive. Well, unless you put in some serious restrictions with teeth against arbitrary cessation of coverage, Tommy boy, your little scheme will just leave those millions of kids in the same damn crappy sitch they're in now.
He's introduced a new bill he insists is more reasonable than the last one that would provide "premium assistance" to the families too well off to qualify for Medicare/Medicaid but not enough to afford private coverage on their own. Oh, sure, Tom, let's send them to the same greedy, heartless bastards who caused the problem in the first place! These would be the same private insurers notorious for dropping millions of policyholders off coverage at a moment's notice for no better reason than that the company's bean-counters consider them bad health risks, right? And not just kids, either, but adults as well.
And twice he harps on how his proposal supposedly solves the problem "without a tax increase." Now we get to the real reason the Repugs oppose expanding SCHIP: Money. God forbid the government should raise taxes to help people who truly need it in a way that can't be overridden by an insurance-company executive. Well, unless you put in some serious restrictions with teeth against arbitrary cessation of coverage, Tommy boy, your little scheme will just leave those millions of kids in the same damn crappy sitch they're in now.
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Oy Vay
Date: 2007-10-25 12:20 am (UTC)OK, so you don't want insurance companies in charge of paying the high cost that they have caused. I'd love to see insurance companies outlawed forever myself. But if you think letting the g'vmnt take their place is a good idea, you're just not thinking at all.
Price proposes helping those who make more than poverty, but less than $62,000 to buy the insurance that THEY ARE ALREADY PAYING FOR. How's that for compromise. Oh no. If we can't fully fund those who make $20,000 more than that, then what's the point?
What problem is there with trying to be fiscally responsible. If you don't feel you're personally paying enough in taxes, feel free to send the IRS donations unsolicited, or just wait until the next time the dems get in office. Obama/Clinton 08
You're so busy attacking the "enemy" that you don't care about the children your side is punishing in the hell for leather drive for UHC. At this point I'd like to renew my call for anyone from Canada or the UK who's reading this, to defend UHC from your personal experience. I predict no takers.
I answered all your points in the other comment where you scoffed at the idea of an $82,000 ceiling. Now that it's not so easy to laugh at, because I was right, you just ignore the fact that you were wrong on such an important point, and continue with the unfounded emotional rant.
This is why there is such a rift in the political population. The vitriol from the left is staggering. They're always right no matter how much fact they have to ignore, or how many innocents they have to trample to prove it.