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Obama signs Pallone SCHIP bill

By Editor | February 4th, 2009 - 8:18pm

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President Barack Obama, surrounded by members of Congress, including U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-Long Branch), far left, finishes signing the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) legislation. The SCHIP legislation extends health coverage to 4 million uninsured children from low income homes at a cost of $32.8 billion through 2013.

Pallone, the Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, was the prime sponsor of the legislation in the House.

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The article is a lie

Submitted by JoeSchilp on February 4, 2009 - 10:01pm.

SCHIP does not supply health insurance fro low-income people. It increases eligibility for this welfare-style benefit to children (including ‘slackers’ up to age 24) in households with incomes as high as 400% of the federal poverty level. That's right, people with incomes high enough to get them into the AMT tax bracket will be eligible for SCHIP.

Thanks, Frank, for furthering the slide toward Hillarycare socialism!

"We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work!"
- FDR's Treasure Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, in 1939, on 8 years of New Deal spending as an attempt to end the Great Depression.

That's the minority

Submitted by MCJ on February 4, 2009 - 11:53pm.

400% FPL is only in extraordinarily high income states--NJ, NY, and CA. But most recipients aren't in that income bracket anyway--representing <5% recipients.

But I'll agree this definitely is a step towards socialized medicine.

MCJ

Submitted by JoeSchilp on February 5, 2009 - 12:06am.

Yes, and in NJ, that means a "family" that earns $80,000+ can qualify as a "low income home."

And I put "family" in quotes because there are ways of skewing the numbers. For example, I know of a person who rents a home to an unmarried couple. The couple refuses to marry because the woman has kids from a previous marriage and receives a rent subsidy as a "single mother" from her county in Northern NJ. Even though the boyfriend has lived with her for more than 7 years, because he's not on the lease, his income does not count disqualify them for a subsidy even though their combined income is six-figures. The same would hold true with SCHIP. It's a scam.

As for the socialism aspect, if anyone truly thinks the gov't can do a better job than the free market, spend some time waiting in line in a post office for 20 minutes and imagine an emergency room being run in a similar fashion.

Good example

Submitted by MCJ on February 5, 2009 - 2:11am.

"As for the socialism aspect, if anyone truly thinks the gov't can do a better job than the free market, spend some time waiting in line in a post office for 20 minutes and imagine an emergency room being run in a similar fashion." Nice one.

SCHIP is more efficient, however, than CharityCare, which is why Sen. Vitale was smart to divert funds from one to the other.

Here's my example from my profession in medicine. Both are accurate, but one is plainly better:

www.webmd.com (looks fantastic, formatted excellently, dynamic, changes daily, very up-to-date)

vs.

www.medlineplus.gov (old HTML look, slow, difficult to navigate, non-comprehensive).

When my patients ask for a reliable website, which one do you think I suggest?

Right, MCJ, here's another

Submitted by JoeSchilp on February 5, 2009 - 8:03am.

I've been told by two separate medical technicians in two separate facilites that many of the MRI machines in Europe and Canada were purchased used from the U.S. In other words, when an American hospital or MRI facility purchases the latest and greatest, they sell their old machine to a facility in Europe, so we're clearly getting the best in the U.S.

Why would we tamper with that?

"U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone

Submitted by YoungNJ on February 5, 2009 - 10:24am.

"U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-Long Branch), far left..."

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