Democrats: Families Of Four Who Make $82,000 A Year Are Now “Poor”
The Democrats, already beginning their push towards government-run health care, are starting with the SCHIP program (initially created to get health care for the children of poor families) by tripling it’s size and scope so that it covers people who, frankly, don’t really need it.
WASHINGTON — There is no need to wait until a new president is elected next year for the great national health care debate. It is underway right now, disguised as a routine extension of an immensely popular, non-controversial 10-year-old program of providing coverage to poor children. In fact, this proposal is the thin edge of the wedge to achieve the longtime goal of government-supplied universal health insurance and the suffocation of the private system.
The Senate Finance Committee was scheduled to mark up this portentous legislation expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) today [Thursday], but disagreement over the size of the program and how to pay for it forced postponement. Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s version would triple SCHIP’s current five-year cost of $25 billion to a level of $75 billion. That would grant federal largesse to more than just poor “kids” (as politicians endearingly call children). An estimated 71 percent of all American children in families of four making as much as $82,000 a year would become eligible, with states also continuing present coverage of adults under SCHIP.
This is how liberals herd people onto the victimhood plantation. They tell them that they’re poor and can’t afford health care on their own, then they vote other people’s money out of the nation’s treasury to pay for these people’s entitlements and make them dependent on the government and finally they use that dependence to control them.
Just like how Democrats get votes from farmers by turning them into victims and then pandering to them with subsidies. Same with minority groups like blacks too. “You can’t get ahead unless we give you affirmative action and all sorts of special treatment, so vote for us!” It isn’t about empowerment, or making people better so that they can stand on their own two feet, it’s about subjugation.
And trust me, that’s what socialized medicine will be (in addition to terribly expensive, inefficient and ineffective). Subjugation. Once we’re all hooked on government health care, and once private health care providers are so marginalized by an inability to compete with the government (which has no need to turn a profit) that only the rich can afford them, our dependence on politicians for health care will be used to change how we live.
The anti-smoking folks will be demanding that smokers pay more in taxes. The anti-fat people will be demanding that regulations against unhealthy foods be passed for the sake of saving tax dollars. And all this while you wait six months for knee surgery like they do in Canada and Great Britain.



