President Places Financial Limits on SCHIP Entitlement

It's good to see the Bush Administration showing a little backbone in this battle to limit the Democrat Congress' single-minded, poorly thought out, drive toward Single Payer Socialized Medicine. Like all well-intended, "compassion"-based, Liberal ideas, SCHIP is a bad idea, being worsened by the Left's overwhelming belief in the rightness of all things goverment, and their mistrust of private enterprise.

The move to broaden the definition of a "child" to include 25 year-old adults with children of their own is simply a transparent attempt to move closer to the Left's ideal system of government run medical care.

Makes perfect sense to me, place the most intrusive and inefficient bureaucracy in existence in control of our most vital of services.

New Bush Policies Limit Reach of Child Insurance Plan

By Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 21, 2007; Page A04

The Bush administration, engaged in a battle with Congress over whether a popular children's health insurance program should be expanded, has announced new policies that will make it harder for states to insure all but the lowest-income children.

New administrative hurdles, which state health officials were told about late last week, are aimed at preventing parents with private insurance for their children from availing of the government-subsidized State Children's Health Insurance Program. But Democrats and children's advocates said that the announcement will jeopardize coverage for children whose parents work at jobs that do not provide employer-paid insurance.

Under the new policy, a state seeking to enroll a child whose family earns more than 250 percent of the poverty level -- or $51,625 for a family of four -- must first ensure that the child is uninsured for at least one year. The state must also demonstrate that at least 95 percent of children from families making less than 200 percent of the poverty level have been enrolled in the children's health insurance program or Medicaid -- a sign-up rate that no state has yet managed.

There are far better alternatives, coming out of the Conservative side of the aisle, that will better serve the needs of the American people, provide healthcare to those who truly need assistance without the addition of thousands of government paid employees, spending $Billions in taxpayer money to shuffle paper in a newly created bureaucracy.

One of the most sensible is to allow small businesses to group together to qualify for the discounts that large corporate interests get, but of course this, like any program that would thwart the Democrats in their drive toward Single Payer Socialized Medicine, is being blocked by those same "compassionate" Liberals who so loudly bemoan the poor state of healthcare among the lower middle-class families.

Time for Democrats to put their...oops!...our tax money where their snouts aren't. Oink! Oink!

Long Live Our American Republic!

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