Evidence That Today’s SCHIP is Hillary’s Vision For Socialized Medicine

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A smoking gun if I’ve ever seen one.  This one is on Hillary Clinton’s 1993 plan to get socialized medicine implemented across the country, via the children.  Just like the recent SCHIP bill:

Back in 1993, according to an internal White House staff memo, then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s staff saw federal coverage of children as a “precursor” to universal coverage.

In a section of the memo titled “Kids First,” Clinton’s staff laid out backup plans in the event the universal coverage idea failed.

And one of the key options was creating a state-run health plan for children who didn’t qualify for Medicaid but were uninsured.

That idea sounds a lot like the current State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which was eventually created by the Republican Congress in 1997.

“Under this approach, health care reform is phased in by population, beginning with children,” the memo says. “Kids First is really a precursor to the new system. It is intended to be freestanding and administratively simple, with states given broad flexibility in its design so that it can be easily folded into existing/future program structures.”

In short, its a plan to slowly start Socialized medicine by setting a precedent with the kids.  Once the kids are completely covered via big government then they can start in on the adults.  Take Illinois for example.  This report shows that they slowly started with the poor kids, then all kids regardless of wealth and immigration status, and now they are moving to the adults:

They successfully promoted the All Kids program through which IL will offer subsidized coverage for all children regardless of income or immigration status. They also were successful in promoting an extension of coverage to an estimated 400,000 additional adults by raising the eligibility standard for low-income parents from 39% FPL to 185%, despite a state fiscal crisis.

Wisconsin spends 75% of SCHIP funds on adults, Minnesota – 61%, Illinois – 60%.  In total fourteen states now use SCHIP to cover adults.  This amounts to 13% of all SCHIP funds going towards adults.  Hell, one third of those are not even parents for gods sake. 

The Republicans capitulated in 1997 on SCHIP and now looks where it got us.  A program that is gradually leading towards big government taking over medicine. 

For an idea at how Socialized medicine will work just look to our public schools.  Sub-standard education is the norm throughout the country, teachers leave because of the low pay and no one replaces them, or they get replaces with sub-standard employees.  Year after year they raise our taxes to help pay for the shoddy education. 

Look to England or Canada, where people come here to get major health care because of the long waits, or their operation being denied.  It’s gotten so bad in Canada they now allow private insurance to come in. 

Big government is not the answer.  Making private insurance affordable is via tax cuts is.

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“Making private insurance affordable is via tax cuts is.”

And more doctors. Why are entries to medical schools so limited? If you want government involvement, get government to build or fund more schools for MDs. Offer more scholarships so that students with limited financial abilities can go to med school. Offer payback options that include working in disadvantaged areas that lack MDs. Require that new MDs serve xx years as GPs before they’re allowed to specialize. Develop programs that enable nurses to apply their training to some of the requirements of med school so that they can become doctors. In other words, increase the supply, and the cost will drop.
If the Feds made universal health care available for next year, there simply wouldn’t be enough doctors to care for everyone.
I have a son who was in college in about ’85 in a university that had a pre-med program. He said at the time that some of his classes were extremely difficult since the profs graded on the curve, and it was routine for the students who were in pre-med required classes to cheat because the requirements to get into med school were so tough. They had to have a 4.+ average to be considered. The non-pre-med students didn’t have the incentive to cheat to compete. I haven’t any info that indicates to me that entry requirements have diminished. Maybe we should encourage more med schools so that there would be openings for students with lower grades…you know…like just a 4.0 instead of 4.+.

My sister, mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, godparents, and more all work in the healthcare industry, and I can say with absolute certainty that while conspiracy theorists love to point to the “military industrial complex” as the driving force that causes wars (still stuck on Ike’s rhetoric from the 50’s!), the reality is that the American healthcare industry eclipses the military industrial complex at least 10x (no less, probably more), and as such the political power they can buy is a lot more than the power the military can buy. Anyone who doubts it need only ask which has more lobbyists:

military industry
OR
healthcare (pharmaceuticals, insurance, etc)

To paraphrase Fred Thompson, I’m waiting to see a list of the 3 lobbyists Hillary Clinton dislikes the most. Of course, the reality is that there isn’t a single one.

If Norman Hsu were free to design the biggest scam in the world it would be competition for health care industry in this country.

You go to the hospital for a few days and you end up with 50 or more billings from people you don’t even know and not a single tracking number back to that hospital stay.

A pure invitation for some scammer to have someone on the inside in the billing office to feed them data so that they can fake a bill and mail it to you.

I will say though that one hospital I was in recently had at the bottom of their bill and itemized listing of every group that would be sending related bills to my stay.

For other hospitals, I have to call the billing office to verify each bill as being valid.

Last summer on NPR they had a gal on who was talking about expanding funding for SCHIP.

Even she had to admit that only 60% of those at that time who were eligible for the program had signed up for it.

Don’t worry Slimguy…. They’re going to tax us as if 100% had signed up for the program.

Whenever you hear a Dem talk about doing something “for the children” or in this case “kids first” grab your wallet and hold onto your freedom because Dems are coming after both.

Maybe Republicans need to start our own political campaign using children. How about a campaign commercial with kiddies gathering around a television set watching clips of Bill Clinton say “I did not have sex with that woman… I never asked anyone to lie” then turn to their mothers and ask “Is a blowjob really sex?”