Congress Seeks to Tarnish Children’s Health Insurance Program
- Jan 14, 2009 - 2
Dear Friends:
We already need your help to stop this one-week-old Congress from passing bad policy.
Today, Congress is expected to consider legislation that would tarnish a decade-old health insurance program that has well served millions of children whose low-income families do not qualify for Medicaid. The bill, H.R. 2, would radically expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to include coverage for children from higher-income families at an estimated cost of $33 billion over nearly five years.
This proposal is teeming with problems. For starters, the government should first ensure that the many children who are presently eligible though not enrolled are added to the program before even considering a policy to add children whose parents can afford to provide them with health coverage. What’s more, H.R. 2 includes no cap on income eligibility, meaning coverage could be extended to children whose parents earn over $80,000. The money used by the government to insure these children would be taken away from other families who need to provide for their children. Ultimately, this misguided policy would drive families with private coverage into government-run coverage.
With your help, we fought and defeated a similar bill twice in 2007 by President Bush’s veto. We need your help again!
We fully support continuing the program that has helped millions of impoverished families provide health insurance for their children. But given the economic situation our country is currently facing, we need to make sure that our scare federal money is directed toward those most in need. H.R. 2 does not do that.
If you agree, please contact your congressman and senators immediately and tell them to oppose H.R. 2, the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, or any other bill with similar objectionable provisions.
You can call them by dialing the Capitol switchboard at 202/224-3121. Or click here to e-mail them a suggested letter or one entirely your own.
Thank you for taking time to make your voice heard. May God richly bless you.
In His Service,
Dr. Richard Land
President
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Southern Baptist Convention
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1 On Jan 14th, 2009, at 9:22pm, Marie wrote:
I, an American, have lived in countries with health care paid for by a government.I was also a dependent child of an American military father. Government paid health care is no stranger to my life. Many people who have been on these programs fear for their lives to tell the truths. Why?More than the cost.
1.These programs become ways to kill,with doctors on staff to write cover ups.Operation that should not have been, operations that should have been.
Medical Experimentation,without permission and/or patient knowledge.
2.Children and adults are taken, sold and replaced with look a likes. Human trafficking. Some for political reasons, some because the money is good.
3.Deaths planned for revenge, organ donations, patient exceeds health care system available cost.
2 On Jan 14th, 2009, at 9:48pm, Marie wrote:
4. Litigation is difficult as the patient and family are suing the government and fear for their families lives.
5. Risk to Nation.. Terrorist working in government paid health care programs have the ability to control medications. Example: too much antibiotics or not enough antibiotics..
Controlling pharmaceuticals in a specific region, can and does prepare that group of people for a bio-attack on human life..some of the preparations are for the benefit of the people and some are not.
I lived in a country where the people were given medications that were too weak to be affective. When the bio attack occurred the citizen were not prepared. Many became sick.
5. Diseases are controlled to control population, regulate the Local, national and global economies, reduce the amount of available employable nationals to allow higher immigration numbers to enter country. A ploy used by invading countries to take over a country..hopefully invisibly.