Quote of the Day
Monday, October 1st, 2007Let’s be clear: This is not a debate over whether we’re going to provide health insurance for our nation’s low-income children, because we all agree that we will do that. This is a debate over whether we should move to nationalize health care.
-Senator Mel Martinez (R-Fl) in today’s Orlando Sentinel on the underlying focus of […]
The Butcher Strikes Again: SCHIP Debate is a Farse
Friday, September 28th, 2007Tom Coburn speaks truth on the SCHIP bill. A bill which recently passed both chambers of Congress and is on its way to the President for his promised veto. A veto that will be sustained by at least the House and most likely the Senate.
My criticism of Republicans on this issue and other […]
Extend SCHIP program without spending billions to expand it
Thursday, September 27th, 2007An article published in USA Today, written by Mike Leavitt:
We all want to see every American insured, and President Bush has proposed a plan to see that everyone is. Congress, instead, is pushing a massive expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) that grows government without helping nearly as many children.
The president’s plan, […]
How Liberal Democrats View Wealth
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007While watching (a sober) Ted Kennedy debate (talk to himself) on the SCHIP bill on the floor of the Senate he said something that sums up how Democrats view wealth.
Ted Kennedy, pointed to a visual aid and which presented the spending choices the Bush administration has made relative to SCHIP legislation. It was a […]
NJ SCHIP debate
Sunday, August 5th, 2007Taken from a great article by Tommy De Seno of Red Jersey titled Should a NJ Family of 4 Earning $72,000 Get Welfare?:
NJFamilyCare gives free health insurance to the children of a family of four making up to $31,000. There’s a monthly premium of $18.50 if they make $41,000, $37.50 a month if they […]
