The Clinton Administration OPPOSED SCHIP. People here are trying to re-spin the history of SCHIP.

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35. If you can find the Baucus hearings from 2009, buried in there there are some very imteresting

discussions about SCHIP that explain all sorts of things about it- which surprised me at least..

the health insurance companies hate it and I got the distinct impression from the hearings that they had extracted promises that it was going to go away soon. (this was in 2009, I would love to be wrong) Key phrase they kept using "too attractive" another phrase "crowd out" - they used that a lot. "crowd-out" as in it cannot take away core customers from insurers.. it can only help people who could not afford it otherwise. That crowd out is problematic. the same concept comes up with other forms of public services now and its a creature of the GATS and its adoption of so called "competition policy"

There were also some strange comments in there about the Hyde Amendment- (I think that was it) people dont realize it but right wing churches make huge huge unregulated money off of adoptions and for that reason don't want young mothers to have access to affordable health care so they could keep their babies..

There is all sorts of strange stuff in there.

maybe they have it on some web site somewhere. I watched them on CSPAN and recorded them to dvds which I have somewhere. crappy cheap DVDs. 6 hours a pop.

I think they may no longer play but then they may. If I find them I would be willing to digitize / compress them and upload them somewhere.