House Democrats Pass More “Free” Health Care For Poor Kids

Except that this health care package isn’t really for “poor kids.” This massive entitlement expansion, ostensibly $35 billion in new obligatory spending per year to be paid with by a 20,000% increase in tobacco taxes though it’ll end up costing far more than that, is for all children who belong to families with incomes $82,000 or less.
Keep in mind that approximately 83% of American households earn around $82,000 or less according to the Census Bureau. This isn’t a program for poor kids. This is, as Robert Novak put it last month, “the thin edge of the wedge to achieve the longtime goal of government-supplied universal health insurance and the suffocation of the private system.” By making nearly all American citizens eligible for SCHIP, Democrats encourage them to become dependent on the government for medical care for their children. Which is another step toward getting them dependent on the government for medical care for themselves.
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 then 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: 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 (or denying you access to medical procedures if they decide you’re too fat). And all this while you wait six months for knee surgery like they do in Canada and Great Britain.