Designed to bring about de facto government control over health care.
“I think there is going to be a commitment to universal coverage. I don't think it's necessarily going to be a sector by sector process. I think you either need to go in whole hog or not. We tried to sort of squeeze the middle here with doing children and doing seniors, and ( Read more... )

Pete Stark appears determined to drive Congressional approval ratings down to zero all by himself, raging on the House floor during the debate over the SCHIP veto override. He ranted (in part):
But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old, enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off ( Read more... )

Victory!
WASHINGTON - House Democrats were unable Thursday to override President Bush's veto of their pre-election year effort to expand a popular government health insurance program to cover 10 million children.


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Turns out the poster family for SCHIP has a (media) problem: they are actually quite well off.

Surprised? You shouldn't be!

Suckers!

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Great analysis from CATO on the SCHIP scam. Arm yourself to do battle with the MSM when they call you heartless monsters who want to kill children!
"SCHIP is senseless. Like its much larger sibling, Medicaid, the program forces taxpayers to send their money to Washington so that Congress can send it back to state governments with strings attached ( Read more... )

Something to show liberals when they start making false accusations about "the children, TEH CHILDREN ( Read more... )

I'm not surprised it is Eliot "I'll make you pay!" Spitzer behind this.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eight states will back a lawsuit to stop the federal government from imposing new rules which they fear will force them to cut children from a health insurance program, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer said on Monday ( Read more... )

No, this isn't about condoms.

It is, however, about a Trojan-horse attempt to expand government-run health care into the middle class through a back door.
WASHINGTON - Congress approved legislation Thursday that would potentially add 4 million children to a popular health care program, setting up a veto fight that President Bush probably will win ( Read more... )