Representative Stephanie Sandlin voted in favor of this:
The U.S. House of Representatives last week approved a $160 billion entitlement explosion, a $53 billion tax hike, relaxed rules for illegal immigrant access to federal benefits, and a package of Medicare cuts. With this they are saddling our children with extraordinary debt, and are doing so without my vote.
All of this was rolled into a single bill: the so-called reauthorization of the SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program).
The program was established under the premise that it would provide health insurance for children whose families were too wealthy to qualify for Medicaid, but too poor to afford private insurance. In the intervening years, it has strayed far from this premise. And the bill passed this week not only doesn't return it to its roots, it expands it so dramatically that, if signed into law, two-thirds of the American people could end up under government-run health care.
The Democrats' SCHIP bill is a thinly veiled effort to shift children – and, under its own definitions, adults – from private health coverage to a government-run entitlement program.
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