9 million children lose health insurance as GOP Congress lets CHIP expire

its thinking like this that causes people to question you...

 

what the hell are you talking about? everything i said was true, look it up.

 

Some people are just incapable of seeing things from different perspectives. Its not his fault he doesn't understand.

 

States are starting to panic, but as we have witnessed in Alabama, kids are secondary to winning tax cuts for the very top.



https://www.npr.org/sections/health...ng-that-chip-kids-health-insurance-is-at-risk

 

Now that tax cut for Trump and the very wealthy are done, think the party of life will help poor kids this Christmas?

 

Well, they did just cut their parent's taxes, so I'm sure that helps them.

 

They don't care about those children once they are outside the womb.

 

Excellent Trump-like scam. Best Christmas present ever. Save $100 to lose health care for your children.

 

True. But this is a new line. 9M children health care at risk. Both party had supported CHIP with ease. This was seen earlier as a political chip by the GOP to bargain with. That's sad, but ok, it's politic. Now that it close to the end of the year and they got their awesome win, why are they not taking care of this? They can't be this evil? They do care a bit. Right?

 

Where is Hatch these days?



In 1997, Senators Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, and Ted Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts, pushed a bipartisan campaign to create legislation that would secure access to health care for 10 million uninsured children nationwide as part of the Balanced Budget Act. Many of these children grew up in working households that made too much money to qualify for Medicaid.

“No child should have to go without healthcare – that’s why Senator Kennedy and I worked to create CHIP 10 years ago,” Hatch said in a June 2007 statement when Congress was set again to vote for the program’s funding. “The health care children receive when they are young will largely determine their quality of life for their entire adulthood.”

 

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure or as Republicans put it, NANNY STATE!!!!

 

The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday blocked a White House plan to cut almost $15 billion in unused government money slated for children's health insurance and other programs.
Senate blocks president's plan to cut $15 billion in unused spending

http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Se...-15-billion-in-unused-spending-486052751.html

 

15 billion isn't a lot for 82 million kids under 18. Shouldn't you be more concerned about parents being able to adequately feed and raise their kids?

 

I work in IT and prevention is what it's all about. It's a constant state of looking for new vulnerabilities that a potential threat could exploit for the company whose data you're trying to make sure is secure with minimal impacted downtime. There's constant data analysis and follow ups with various cogs in the IT industry that's all thoroughly documented with a laundry list of deliberate planning that is done before any major changes go into effect that could potentially make the issue you're trying to resolve worse.

Our government under this administration doesn't do that. It's just constant reactionary moves with no thought as to what the consequences of those actions could result in. In turn, you get disastrous results that no one wants like this. This is why you don't elect stupid people into office.

There's an argument made that (il)legal immigrants are a bane to the everyday American's way of life. I've never once experienced any of this in my life and I doubt the majority of you have either.

I've seen loads of data that shows undocumented workers actually improve our economy with nothing substantial to the contrary.
I've seen loads of data that shows undocumented workers actually abide by the law better than your average American while receiving no benefits from the federal, social security or medicare income taxes that are deducted from their paychecks while they work here.

The truth is your average immigrant is more educated than your everyday American, commit less crime statistically than your everyday American and takes less from the government than your everyday American.

How many school shootings have already happened under Trump's watch with no policy changes done to improve upon it?
How much money has Trump actually invested into improving the nation's infrastructure the way he campaigned? Where are the job training programs for Americans in rural America that were the heart of his voting base? If I was one of them, I'd feel pretty jipped at the afterthought I've become waiting for actual monetary investment in my future to do more and earn more. He'll hit them up come 2020 with the same rhetoric come election time but don't expect any actual effort in making it easier for rural Americans to improve upon their own lives.

As has already been shared many times on this board that Trump's tax cuts did not benefit your average everyday American compared to big business. Undocumented workers pay on average $23.6 billion in taxes. Only behind Exxon Mobil in taxes paid while receiving none of the benefits compared to the $78.3 billion Exxon earned post taxes.

For all the talk about cutting back on programs and finding creative ways of collecting taxes elsewhere, it sure seems to me that collecting an extra $24 billion annually would be a decent contribution towards improving this nation's infrastructure that Trump forgot about. And to think if you make it easier for those undocumented workers to surface from the depths of society, even more workers would then be more likely to leave a tax paying paper trail behind without fear of being deported. All while receiving none of the benefits.

 

$15 billion is not a lot?