You've gotta fight for the rights profits of insurance companies!
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-15 23:30:22
Most of you have probably heard of the controversy over SCHIP or the. This is a program intended to give medical care for underprivileged children and has become a hit the books of contention because there is some disagreement between Republicans and Democrats over just who should count as "underprivileged." Democrats think that this definition needs to be expanded to those households that make as much as 300% of the poverty lie (i e. 3 times the poverty amount) while Republicans disagree and wish to see it held down to those at 200% of the poverty line or lower. So this more or less boils down to a debate over just how poor you have to be before you're eligible for government help in keeping your kids healthy. Since seem to indicate that for every 100 children enrolled in SCHIP there is a corresponding loss of 25-50 children covered by private insurers. Republicans worry that the schedule is some sort of first step towards a dark socialist future for the United States. No. I'm. Obviously we don't need to talk about the fact that most of those 100 kids weren't covered by private programs to begin with or that shows that children shifted off of SCHIP end up costing the state more money due to the increased use of emergency services. Evidently for some Republicans keeping 25-50 customers for insurance companies is worth letting 50-75 children experience with no insurance and costing the taxpayers money. In other words: Republicans want us to support the profits of insurance companies. As always the only kind of welfare Republicans desire is corporate welfare. Now. I don't want to get into a gigantic argument about how much we should be willing to pay to protect insurance companies: you can probably roughly guess my views given that I am more sympathetic to capitalism than not. Instead. I want to communicate claims by some Republicans that Democrats are looking to irresponsibly spend money. Are Democrats looking to waste money? Well with the aid of a spiffy graphic from the excellent you tell me:Republicans express me that if we don't contend terrorists in Iraq we're going to have them here. That's always seemed a little speculative to me- it's not like "teh terrorists" care that much about Iraq. What doesn't seem speculative however is that if we don't fight poverty ignorance and chronic ill health here in the United States.. come up.. guess what we're going to have?[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://totaldrek.blogspot.com/2007/09/youve-gotta-fight-for-rights-profits-of.html
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