The RINOS in the Washington Liberal Echo Chamber will cave-in this time.
Notice the word “modest changes” means nothing substantive.
Psst...Here’s the truth to the notion of providing umbrella health insurance coverage to every child in America, it’s wasteful and fattens the wallets of the insurance carriers and HMO’s more than it benefits us tax payers. While it’s a noble endeavor, it’s not cost effective. At first blush, it would seem to be a grandly benovelent idea to require health insurance across the board for all children. You can hear the leftists’ outcries, can’t ya? “But, but, but...it’s for our babies! We are the wealthiest nation in the world...and we can’t provide healthcare for our children?...”
Problem is, it’s a gargantuanly expensive endeavour that does not provide the biggest bang for the bucks and makes no economical sense. Fact is, the overwhelming majority of kids do not get severely sick and have no need for expansive health insurance coverage. Sure they’ll get the routine common colds, snotty nose, cough, sore throat and the sniffles. But for the most part, the majority of kids are healthy and are not afflicted with serious illnesses. Therefore, mandating health insurance coverage across the board for every kid in America is wasteful and serves the health insurance industry more than it does the kids. As a physician, I would love nothing more than seeing a well insured kid for a routine viral snot nose and sniffle in my ER. Quick 5 minute exam...Easy Chaching! But as a responsible taxpayer I see it as nothing but wasteful drain on our collective wallets. Day after day on duty I see hoards of medicaid covered kids rushed to my ER, sometimes even by ambulance, for routine snot noses and sorethroats. Sadly less than 10% of all the kids I see in my ER have a true medical emergency. Medicaid abuse is sickeningly rampant.
Instead, for kids and healthy young adults, a catastrophic insurance policy makes more sense and is more cost effective, because these policies are much cheaper and are applicable in instances of unexpected calamity such as injuries after a motor vehicle accident, sudden illnesses requiring extensive/prolonged healthcare (meninigitis, appendicitis, new onset diabetes, broken bones ect...).
I refuse to pay the health insurance for folks making 60 gran or more. No one paid for my kids when I was making half that. All of us taxpayers making less than
$60-$80,000 need to shout this from the rooftops.
Another weak of liberals trying to convince the sheeple that Bush is against healthcare for the wee little chilruns...WHEN IN FACT HE AND EVERY GOP LAWMAKER ARE IN FAVOR OF SCHIP WITH A NICE EXPANSION.
Everyone should just copy and paste that on every liberal blog around the country to hysterical libs suffering from BDS.
Once again, President Bush is doing the right thing.