Hoeven: Let’s Give Government Health Care To People Making Double The Poverty Level
According to Hoeven’s “State of the State” address delivered to the legislature today, he wants to extend the state SCHIP program (which grants government health care to children of poor families) to families making 200%, or double, the poverty level.
Why? Apparently because it’s a new and exciting way to spend our state’s surplus.
As a frame of reference, Democrat legislator Jasper Schneider at one time proposed raising SCHIP to cover families making 165% of the poverty level. Meaning that “Republican” John Hoeven is gleefully trying to out-spend the Democrats.
So why do we need all this additional spending on health care for children? Big government proponents like Schneider and Hoeven claim that it’s because we have so many uninsured children, but is that really true? SCHIP was intended to cover children of families who did not qualify for Medicaid. How many currently uninsured children are there in North Dakota that are uninsured because they don’t already qualify for any government-provided health care plan?
Not man, I’d be willing to wager.
But I don’t think that really matters to the big government types, because simply making sure health care is available isn’t their goal. Their goal is to create dependency on government among all of us, and SCHIP is a back door way for them to make us dependent on government health care.
More kids who are used to getting their health care from the government now means more kids open to government health care later. Which opens the door to expanded government-provided health care plans, and eventually nationalized health care.
These big-government types understand that they aren’t likely to get Americans on board with a radical shift toward nationalized health care, but they know they can push Americans in that direction one expanded health care program at a time.
What’s sad is that John Hoeven claims to be a Republican, and yet at the national level Republicans fought long and hard to kill a national SCHIP expansion. Yet here John Hoeven is in North Dakota looking to expand our already bloated health care entitlements.
What a shame. A fellow conservative who was instant messaging me as he watched Hoeven’s speech said it sounded “like Obama’s speechwriter put it together.” I’m inclined to agree.
