SCHIP-Expansion Backers Oppose Choice (Dem Bill Limits Frost Family Options)

National Center Fro Public policy Research ^ | October 18, 2007 | David Almasi

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"If the Democratic version of SCHIP were to pass, Graeme Frost's family would be ineligible to purchase an employer's insurance through SCHIP, should it be available and contain either FSAs or HSAs," said Ridenour. "Nancy Pelosi claims conservatives who wonder about the Frost family's eligibility for SCHIP are conducting a 'vicious attack' on the family. Yet she's pushing policies that would limit the family's health insurance choices. Which is worse?"

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Why are democrats attacking a 12 year old boy?

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I wonder if anyone has read the entire bill??

There was an admission earlier this year (don’t recall if it was on FR or other source) that the media writes their stories based upon the staffer’s synopsis of these bills, which are often crafted to omit those parts to which the public would react.

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"Buried in the leadership's SCHIP expansion bill is a provision restricting the choices of SCHIP recipients," said Amy Ridenour, president of The National Center for Public Policy Research. "Through a part of SCHIP called 'premium assistance,' SCHIP helps recipients pay for health insurance coverage offered by their employers -- but under the Democrat bill, it won't do so if the employer's plan includes either flexible spending accounts or medical savings accounts. If it does, if the Democrats get their way, SCHIP won't subsidize the insurance."

The SCHIPs expansion is NOT about trying to force people off of private insurance and onto the government doles. no sireee. / S

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I haven’t read the entire bill, but then again, it’s really not my job. I’m a private citizen who knew that there was a working SCHIP bill in place, and was surprised to learn of the outrageous new ceilings attached to the new bill. I do know that the same kind of vetting that you describe led to the Grahame Frost debacle. We’re being described as heartless for questioning the credentials of a pair of irresponsible yuppies who had a terrible thing happen to their family.

Why O Why, in the age of Rathergate and the Internet, did this couple, and the political hacks that propped them up, think that a complete outing wouldn’t happen? Now the Dems are trying to bury the Frosts like it never happened, and have a new poster child, daughter of a waitress. Just when you think they can’t sink any lower...they throw an entire family under the bus and pick up a new family, as if they are paper mache puppets. The Dems are ghouls. They don’t seem to realize how the use of innocent children is so offensive to even the most nonpolitical of Americans.

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Don’t you love it - the Dems are trying to torpedo the very types of insurance (FSA, HSA, high deductible) that if more people had them would help fix the health care mess we have today.

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The Democrats "helped" needy people get government housing.

The needy people who were moved into the government-provided housing got free home delivery of rapes, murders, illegal gun sales, gangs, shootouts with the police, non-working elevators and prostitution.

The sad story of government interference in housing is well laid out in America's Trillion Dollar Housing Mistake, which is written by Howard Husock, director of public policy case studies at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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