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Title: House votes health insurance for 4 million more children, including many non-citizen kids
Source:
Chicago Tribune
URL Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ ... alth-insurance,0,2191971.story
Published: Jan 14, 2009
Author: Kevin Freking
Post Date: 2009-01-16 00:23:57 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 678
Comments: 10
Making a down payment on President-elect Barack Obama’s promise of universal health coverage, the House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to expand government-sponsored insurance to 4 million more children in working families with income too high to qualify for Medicaid. Between 300,000 and 600,000 of the new enrollees could be non-citizen children of legal immigrants who have been in the country less than five years, a sticking point for some Senate Republicans who also will consider a similar bill. {snip} Forty Republicans joined Democrats in passing the bill 289-139. Congress passed similar legislation in 2007 but it was vetoed both times by departing President George W. Bush. The bill would raise the federal excise tax on cigarettes by 61 cents to $1 a pack to pay for the $32.3 billion cost of expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program for the next 4 1/2 years. Other tobacco products would experience a comparable tax increase. About 7 million children now get government-sponsored health care through SCHIP. {snip} “This is only the beginning of the change we will achieve with our new president,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who got a congratulatory call from Obama after the vote. {snip} The bill would provide coverage for pregnant legal immigrants in addition their non-citizen children who entered the U.S. in the past five years. Current law requires a five-year waiting period before legal immigrants become eligible for coverage under Medicaid and SCHIP. Supporters say expanding coverage would mean children could get treatment for acute conditions like asthma and diabetes so they were less likely to need care in an emergency room. “These are not illegal immigrants. They are children who go to school, go to daycare with our children, our grandchildren,” said Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas. “Those children ought to have health care.” {snip}
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
The purpose of this program is to get more children on Psychiatric Drugs - as in the Orwellian "New Freedom" Initiative i.e., NO CHILD LEFT UNMEDICATED.
""I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
Oh that's very nice. I was told by a bleeding heart airhead that keeping illegals healthy will keep all of us legal citizens healthier too. Thusly and therefore not only am I happy to pay higher taxes for healthcare of middle class families' children so their parents can spend their $ on kitchen remodels and vacations to France but I'm absolutely thrilled to pay for illegals' childrens' health care because I get better health in return.
Damn straight: WE pay to keep illegals TB-free so we don't catch it ourselves. I fully despise our government from top to bottom, I'm fully ready for an armed revolution to install the government our Founding Fathers gave us, not the bastardized-version we've got right now.
And we are happy to do so not only for health reasons but because we get to enjoy very cheap lettuce prices.
I would be in favor of this if it was restricted to white illegals.
E.coli did wonders for our vegetable prices last year!!!!
"Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude." -- Richard Mitchell (1929-2002) Professor at Glassboro State College, NJ, author, founder and publisher of The Underground Grammarian Source: The Underground Grammarian
Your caustic sarcasm is not needed. Just pony up you money for the "needy" of this country. Shame on you for being heartless.
Just pony up you money for the "needy" of this country. Shame on you for being heartless. Can't do it. Someone stole my pony. Where's my bailout? ;)
"Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude." -- Richard Mitchell (1929-2002) Professor at Glassboro State College, NJ, author, founder and publisher of The Underground Grammarian Source: The Underground Grammarian
The very same lettuce we wouldn't pick for $50 hr according to John McStain.
And we know that John, the war hero, never lies.
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
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#3. To: scrapper2 (#2)
keeping illegals healthy will keep all of us legal citizens healthier too.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#4. To: X-15 (#3)
Damn straight: WE pay to keep illegals TB-free so we don't catch it ourselves.
#5. To: X-15 (#0)
#6. To: scrapper2 (#4)
And we are happy to do so not only for health reasons but because we get to enjoy very cheap lettuce prices.
#7. To: OliviaFNewton (#6)
E.coli did wonders for our vegetable prices last year!!!!
#8. To: Cynicom (#7)
Your caustic sarcasm is not needed.
#9. To: scrapper2 (#4)
because we get to enjoy very cheap lettuce prices.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#10. To: X-15 (#9)
The very same lettuce we wouldn't pick for $50 hr according to John McStain.
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