A Day of Infamy
Mr. Obama just signed the State Children’s’ Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (SCHIP). The proclaimed intent of the measure, according to Democrats, is to guarantee that the poor children living in the United States receive “free medical and dental care.”
And Mr. Obama said it was just the beginning during the signing ceremony. That was a truthful statement, and one of the saddest and most fearsome forecasts ever made by a president.
The legislation is officially intended to increase SCHIP enrollment from 7 million to 11 million children. This humanitarian goal will be accomplished because the original family income cap of $42,000 was raised. Now children, under the age of 25, living with families that have incomes below $66,000/year qualify.
The increased enrollment will bring the annual cost to about $10 billion a year. Only in the Democratic lexicon is that “free medical and dental care.”
The average household income of 60% of US families is less than $62,000; the medium income is about $50,000. It was shocking to discover that the United States has nearly 4 million hungry, bare footed children in the Middle Class.
Of course, the 11 million number is eyewash. Any parents with an income under $66,000, who removes their children’s names from their private medical insurance policy, can enroll them in SCHIP. In truth, 42 million US children are eligible to participate.
Do the arithmetic! Within a decade the annual cost for SCHIP will approach 40 billion dollars. And that number doesn’t include the cost of “free medical and dental care” for the children of immigrants on the first day they receive their green cards, or for the maternity benefits immediately granted their mothers.
The medical costs currently absorbed by the states for providing care to 12-16 million illegal aliens has them swimming in red ink. Does any taxpayer believe the states won’t turn a blind eye to the legal status of the immigrant patients? This is a sweetheart deal for the states that put out the welcome mat for illegal aliens. They are blue in color.
SCHIP is an invitation to disaster. Its real cost will exceed $50 billion annually within ten years, unless Mexico collapses financially. And it is teetering on the edge. Its disintegration will drive millions of Mexicans across the border. Be alarmed! Nearly one-half of Mexico’s 119 million population is under the age of twenty-five.
If Obama, Pelosi and Reid accomplish nothing else in the coming four years, they can point to anchoring universal healthcare. That was, and is, the primary objective of the legislation. Secondly, they hope to entice Mexicans into the Democratic Party which will guarantee the liberals’ lock on congress for generations.
This is the same party which is currently planning to add nearly $1.5 trillion in expanded entitlements under the auspices of a stimulus plan. They have abandoned every principle in their quest to displace capitalism with socialism, and solidify their power.
SCHIP sounded the death knell for private medical practices, capitalism, national security and the deterioration of the medical industry. Its signing on February 4, 2009 pushed the nation into the jaws of the same style of socialism crushing every European economy. It was a day of infamy.
PLEASE NOTE: The Democrats raised the tax on a package of cigarettes to $1.00 to cover the cost of SCHIP. Every American man, woman and child will soon have to smoke 166 packages of cigarettes each year to defray the cost.
And Mr. Obama said it was just the beginning during the signing ceremony. That was a truthful statement, and one of the saddest and most fearsome forecasts ever made by a president.
The legislation is officially intended to increase SCHIP enrollment from 7 million to 11 million children. This humanitarian goal will be accomplished because the original family income cap of $42,000 was raised. Now children, under the age of 25, living with families that have incomes below $66,000/year qualify.
The increased enrollment will bring the annual cost to about $10 billion a year. Only in the Democratic lexicon is that “free medical and dental care.”
The average household income of 60% of US families is less than $62,000; the medium income is about $50,000. It was shocking to discover that the United States has nearly 4 million hungry, bare footed children in the Middle Class.
Of course, the 11 million number is eyewash. Any parents with an income under $66,000, who removes their children’s names from their private medical insurance policy, can enroll them in SCHIP. In truth, 42 million US children are eligible to participate.
Do the arithmetic! Within a decade the annual cost for SCHIP will approach 40 billion dollars. And that number doesn’t include the cost of “free medical and dental care” for the children of immigrants on the first day they receive their green cards, or for the maternity benefits immediately granted their mothers.
The medical costs currently absorbed by the states for providing care to 12-16 million illegal aliens has them swimming in red ink. Does any taxpayer believe the states won’t turn a blind eye to the legal status of the immigrant patients? This is a sweetheart deal for the states that put out the welcome mat for illegal aliens. They are blue in color.
SCHIP is an invitation to disaster. Its real cost will exceed $50 billion annually within ten years, unless Mexico collapses financially. And it is teetering on the edge. Its disintegration will drive millions of Mexicans across the border. Be alarmed! Nearly one-half of Mexico’s 119 million population is under the age of twenty-five.
If Obama, Pelosi and Reid accomplish nothing else in the coming four years, they can point to anchoring universal healthcare. That was, and is, the primary objective of the legislation. Secondly, they hope to entice Mexicans into the Democratic Party which will guarantee the liberals’ lock on congress for generations.
This is the same party which is currently planning to add nearly $1.5 trillion in expanded entitlements under the auspices of a stimulus plan. They have abandoned every principle in their quest to displace capitalism with socialism, and solidify their power.
SCHIP sounded the death knell for private medical practices, capitalism, national security and the deterioration of the medical industry. Its signing on February 4, 2009 pushed the nation into the jaws of the same style of socialism crushing every European economy. It was a day of infamy.
PLEASE NOTE: The Democrats raised the tax on a package of cigarettes to $1.00 to cover the cost of SCHIP. Every American man, woman and child will soon have to smoke 166 packages of cigarettes each year to defray the cost.
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