More information about the SCHIP nonsense

.....that the supporters of this most egregious and misbegotten legislation don't want you to know:


"Supporters of this bill know it's a fraud. They know that this bill will overturn a ruling that states must certify 95% of their uninsured poor children are covered before covering anyone else. They know that right now these states have left 750,000 poor children uncovered while expanding the program to adults and more affluent families because states have used the money to cover other people and then complained that they ran out of money.

The supporters of this bill know that the Congressional Budget Office itself has shown in a study that an overwhelming 77% of children who would be included in this expansion already have personal health insurance. As they start going off the private insurance rolls and on to government-run programs, the premiums for those still holding private coverage will rise. This in turn will encourage more people to sign up for the taxpayer-funded programs.

This is the real hidden purpose of this bill.

Everyone knows that almost anything government runs is less efficient than the private sector and health care is no exception. The cost per child for private, personal health care coverage is $2,300 while it costs the taxpayer $4,000 per child for SCHIP coverage."

-- J. William Lauderback, of the American Conservative Union

And we won't even begin to talk about the lowered quality of health care under this plan, the adults who will be covered under this, or the fact that more than 22 million new smokers will be needed to keep the funding going, or that the increased cigarette taxes are a direct blow to lower income people.......there's just too many facts about this that makes a sustained veto the only logical outcome.