thinkprogress.org — The right wing’s attack on Graeme Frost, a 12-year old recipient of SCHIP, is now attracting attention from a number of traditional media outlets. “I think it’s really a sad statement about how bankrupt some of these people are in their arguments against S-chip that they would attack a 12-year-old boy,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said.
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pdxuserOct 10, 2007
They actually priced insurance and found it would be $1200, more than their mortgage. It's a family of six, with kids who have preexisting conditions like cancer and brain injury.But since the house they bought for $55,000 is now assessed at $260,000, the wingnuts are shaming the parents for not selling their home to pay for health insurance.
kylesellersOct 11, 2007
Oh, please, like they've been playing nice all along?? Haven't you seen mediamatters, thinkprogress, rawstory, moveon.org, and the hours of wasted legislative time talking about how evil talk radio is?
laxidasicalOct 11, 2007
But what you and all of the Republicans are saying is that a person should have to liquidate all of their assets, which will effectively fund their retirement and hopefully help their children when they're older to pay for health insurance? Is that what you are REALLY arguing for? That normal working Americans, who have children (remember, we have a declining population here if you take out illegal immigrants) should have to provide health insurance at great cost instead of helping to provide a stable presence in the community and provide to the tax base, but instead should become wage slaves to big HMOs. Is that really what we want?
shupyOct 11, 2007
There was also a very well publicized story about a Mormon family where the mothers and children were on welfare. Not as a single family, but as separate families. Daddy wasn’t taking care of his wives or children. They considered themselves Christian.If you believe people should not have children they can’t afford, where do you stand on abortion? What happens if that Christian father dies? Would you criticize the wife for having children she can’t afford?Those who rant and rave about how these people can’t afford their kids have never shopped for health care. A single pre-existing condition will rocket your insurance costs to over 1,500 a month. If one of the kids you think you can afford develops diabetes or a congenital defect you may loose your insurance, and you will not be able to insure them at any price. This program does not hand out freebies, it help families BUY private insurance.You are either astonishingly ignorant or you are foolishly young.Those against these programs, do you have parents or grandparents on medicare? Do you consider that a handout? I hope you fully intend to turn down the medicare option when you are old, since you are against government supported healthcare. Tell your parents to get their lazy asses off medicare and pay for their own health insurance.