States Cut Health Insurance for 145,000 Poor Kids

[DaveSZ]

Republican family values for ya (in Texas at least).


http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5761395

States Cut Health Insurance for 145,000 Kids
Fri Jul 23, 2004 05:15 PM ET


By Joan Gralla

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some 145,000 poor children were dropped from a U.S. federal-state health insurance plan in the second half of 2003, with more than half the cuts made by Texas, a health-care research foundation said on Friday.

"The drop in (the) State Children's Health Insurance Program is a major setback when millions of uninsured children are eligible but not yet enrolled," said Diane Rowland, executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.

Net enrollment in the program, which mainly benefits working families, fell last year for the first time since it was launched in 1998, the Washington, D.C.-based Kaiser Commission said in a report.

In many cases, states made the cuts because a weak economy left them with huge budget deficits.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Of course!

If they didn't do that, the richest 1% would have to pay more taxes, and that would skimp their lifestyle-just think, they might have to give up their vacations or give up their summer mansions!

[DaveSZ]

2. Yep!

They'd have to give up that extra Hummer!

We can't have that now can we?

[0007]

10. Isn't humanity great? And these same folks claim that

Jerry Lewis and his fund raising telethons for Muscular Dystrophy are a fake and he pockets the money.

[Trillo]

3. What a great economy!

I'm reminded of a phrase, "the greatness of a society is measured by how it treats its weakest members."

[DaveSZ]

4. I went to the Texas state capitol the other day in Austin

Most of the legislator's cars in the parking lots were luxury cars - Mercedes, Hummers, Land Rovers and the like - and most of them had Bush/Cheney bumper stickers on them.



They are the same bastards who Delay financed with Enron money to take over the state legislature to push redistricting and who are cutting poor kid's healthcare so that they can buy another Mercedes.

Man it makes me sick to think about it.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

5. About time! I feel safer and more prosperous now. Personal responsibility!

Don't coddle poor kids with health care-that just encourages them to get sick and injured.

Eugenics in action, ladies and gentlemen. With a dash of ethnic cleansing to please the fiscal fascists.

Maybe it's a good thing the caps are melting so the Republicans can't just put the old folks out on the ice to die.

[yardwork]

6. Stupid and immoral

Any way you look at it, providing decent health care to children is always a wise investment. Spending a little money now prevents development of costly health problems later in life. The costs in lost productive, not to mention human suffering, are enormous.

Any fiscal conservative who was really informed would see that this is the case.

Not to mention the ethical and moral issues involved in denying access to health care for little children.

What would Jesus do?

Good question to ask the next time a fundamentalist "Christian" tells you they are voting for Bush.

[classof56]

8. Good question, indeed

I have a feeling I know the answer, but I tend to take Jesus' words seriously, as opposed to many Christians I know, in particular those who think Bush is a great fella 'cause he says he "prays to Jesus every morning".

There's a couple of verses in Proverbs I like to quote: "A generous man will himself be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor." And "He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts ro the rich--both come to poverty." Jesus was a scholar, and I'll bet he knew those verses. Let's hope the part about coming to poverty is true for these miserable leeches who are sucking our country and its citizens dry.

I'd say something about burning in hell, too. But that wouldn't be very Christian of me, huh?

Bush Must Go!!!

[movonne]

7. Sure lets get rid of abortion so we can have more children that

die after they are born.

[classof56]

9. And what horrible deaths some of them die

I am constantly haunted by the things that happen to children in this world, too many right here in my own state, at the hands of those who are supposed to love, protect and care for them. Then there's the kids in Iraq, the Sudan, all those awful and war-torn parts of the world. And yet the Bush administration has cut off not only health care of kids here in America, but to women in third world countries where the idea of birth control might be a part of their physicians' care and counsel.

I am sickened, and Bush Must Go!!!