Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy


That last point (bolded) is the one I've thought since this whole thing began. The Democrats bring out this sad little boy, in an emotionally exploitative bypass of the real issue: Should the maximum income to qualify for the governmentprovided S-CHIP healthcare be a maximum of 60,000 (as it's been) or 80,000 (as the Democrats are pushing for) ?


WHAT??!!! This bill had bipartisan support!

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If this bill is successfully vetoed by Bush, the bill will go back to congress, to reach agreement on the lower income cap. Which will prevent families with very healthy finances from just cancelling the health insurance they already have, and can well afford, to take government freebies.


You really haven't been paying attention to this story. If you had, you'd have read that the family was DENIED care because of "pre-Existing conditions" meaning insurers generally only like you if you AERN'T sick.

And somewhere up there i made the point that social safety nets are there specifically so you won't have to lose everything and go into destitution in order to play for your child's health care.