The Democrats want to socialize medicine in the US, to turn the health care in our country into a European-like system. As an American who is now WAYYYYYYYYYY beyond middle age (I am middle aged if you expect to live a very, very long time), the idea of socialized medicine in the next decade is a frightening thing. As Mark Steyn writes at National Review:
I’m in favor of tax credits for child health care, and Health Savings Accounts
for adults, and any other reform that emphasizes the citizen’s responsibility to
himself and his dependents. But middle-class entitlement creep would be wrong
even if was affordable, even if Bill Gates wrote a check to cover it every
month: it turns free-born citizens into enervated wards of the nanny state. As
Gerald Ford likes to say when trying to ingratiate himself with conservative
audiences, “A government big enough to give you everything you want is big
enough to take away everything you have.” But there’s an intermediate stage: A
government big enough to give you everything you want isn’t big enough to get
you to give any of it back. As I point out in my
book, nothing makes a citizen more selfish than socially equitable
communitarianism: once a fellow’s enjoying the fruits of Euro-style
entitlements, he couldn’t give a hoot about the general societal interest; he’s
got his, and who cares if it’s going to bankrupt the state a generation
hence?
That’s the real “war on children”: In Europe, it’s killing their
future. Don’t make the same mistake here.
The Republicans in the Congress want to see the S-CHIP program continue, at the previous rate of funding. So that families earning up to $80,000 are not covered-which what the Democrats are looking for in the current proposed S-CHIP expansion. Joe Knollenberg, A Michigan Republican congressman writes that Nancy Pelosi's health care bill will affect illegal immigration rates:
But this story gets worse. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill lowers the
standards for proving one’s citizenship. This will open the flood gates to
identity theft, fraud, and make it possible for illegal immigrants to qualify
for the expansion of taxpayer-provided health care. That’s just wrong and I
can’t accept it.
Democrat Congressman, Pete Stark (see the deranged video at the link) manages to draw a parallel between the S-CHIP entitlement expansion, President Bush and the war in Iraq:
Rep. Pete Stark starts blabbering about Republicans who don’t want to spend
money on children, but instead want to spend it on “an illegal war” to be fought
by children whom Republicans want to send to Iraq to “blow people up” and “get
their heads blown up” for “his amusement.”
Stark: “Bush just
likes to blow things up!!!”
There's a fine public servant for you, heh? (Insert sarcasm tag here.) I'm sure it's just a bit of Democrat nuance.
Ed Morrissey live blogged the S-CHIP debate in congress.
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