If you remember, Congress passed an S-CHIP expansion program that the president vetoed. There are enough votes to override the veto in the Senate, but the House vote stayed the same. Not a single Repub who voted against the original bill changed their vote this time around. Billions for an inane war, but working-class children without health insurance can go to hell.
These are the bastards (all Repubs) who don't give a damn about your families, your finances, and most importantly, your children. Please remember them when they come to you next year begging for your vote.
| Aderholt Akin Alexander Bachmann Bachus Baker Barrett (SC) Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehner Bonner Boozman Boustany Brady (TX) Broun (GA) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp (MI) Campbell (CA) Cannon Cantor Carter Chabot Coble Cole (OK) Conaway Crenshaw Cubin Culberson Davis (KY) Davis, David Deal (GA) Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Doolittle Drake Dreier Duncan Everett Fallin Feeney Flake | Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gingrey Gohmert Goode Goodlatte Granger Graves Hall (TX) Hastert Hastings (WA) Hayes Heller Hensarling Herger Hoekstra Hulshof Hunter Inglis (SC) Issa Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Jones (NC) Jordan Keller King (IA) Kingston Kline (MN) Knollenberg Kuhl (NY) Lamborn Lewis (CA) Lewis (KY) Linder Lucas Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo Marchant Marshall McCarthy (CA) McCaul (TX) McCotter McCrery McHenry McKeon Mica | Miller (FL) Miller, Gary Musgrave Myrick Neugebauer Nunes Paul Pearce Pence Peterson (PA) Pickering Pitts Poe Price (GA) Putnam Radanovich Reynolds Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Royce Ryan (WI) Sali Saxton Schmidt Sensenbrenner Sessions Shadegg Shimkus Shuster Smith (NE) Smith (TX) Souder Stearns Sullivan Tancredo Taylor Terry Thornberry Tiahrt Walberg Walden (OR) Wamp Weldon (FL) Weller Westmoreland Whitfield Wicker Wilson (SC) |
Included in this list and highlighted are my representative, who "serves" northwest Georgia, and the Tennessee congressman whose district includes Chattanooga.
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Let's keep in mind that in some states more than 80% of SCHIP recipients are adults, many of whom are in college. In Wisconsin, 86% are adults.
More than one-half state states allow illegals in SCHIP.
Most states do not check income eligibility - they accept blindly statements from six-figure parents that they make too little to afford private insurance, simply because their state revenue departments will not turn over income data. Yet, even the CBO report concedes that one half the new eligibles will ditch their private plans to become enrolled, under the new bill. That “crowd out effect” that so many economists mention has historically resulted in higher private insurance premiums to cover the exodus.
The annual cost to taxpayers of covering an uninsured child under the Senate’s expansion plan would increase from $1,418 to between $2,508 and $2,859. This is 1.8 to 2 times the cost of SCHIP coverage for a child in a family at this income level or almost 2.5 times the average cost of private insurance.
The Senate bill (basically the one that was vetoed) costs more than $1,100 above what a top-of-the-line Blue Cross / Blue Shield plan would cost, while the House plan would have cost almost 3.5 times the price of private health insurance. You’d rather they have a red tape-laden, inefficient, government program for a thousand dollars more per person, than Aetna, or Blue Cross? It would be far cheaper to simply hand out money for private insurance reimbursement, or give a tax credit to those at or below 200% of the FPL.
Finally, not even half the additional costs would be “paid for with tobacco taxes,” as the CBO report points out, because of price elasticity — you’d need to create 22 million additional smokers in less than 5 years, while the smoking rate continues to decline each year. It’s impossible to pay for the Senate or House bill using tobacco taxes alone.
It ain’t about the kids; it’s about elections.
It’s always about elections.
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