Comments on: White House moves to strip New York state of SCHIP money http://rochesterturning.com/2007/08/21/white-house-moves-to-strip-new-york-state-of-schip-money/ turning the tide upstate Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:53:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Rottenchester http://rochesterturning.com/2007/08/21/white-house-moves-to-strip-new-york-state-of-schip-money/#comment-55009 Rottenchester Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:30:14 +0000 http://rochesterturning.com/2007/08/21/white-house-moves-to-strip-new-york-state-of-schip-money/#comment-55009 Kuhl, at least, didn't engage on this issue. Instead, he's concentrating on the loss of Medicare Advantage benefits (which is real, but they unfairly privilege 20% of Medicare recipients, and HMOs), the tiny tax on private insurance, and the loosening of id requirements for Medicaid (which included the need for a certified copy of a birth cert.). In other words, he realizes it's political suicide to engage in frontal attack on S-CHIP. Bush (motto: when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose) doesn't care and sallies forth. Kuhl, at least, didn’t engage on this issue. Instead, he’s concentrating on the loss of Medicare Advantage benefits (which is real, but they unfairly privilege 20% of Medicare recipients, and HMOs), the tiny tax on private insurance, and the loosening of id requirements for Medicaid (which included the need for a certified copy of a birth cert.).

In other words, he realizes it’s political suicide to engage in frontal attack on S-CHIP. Bush (motto: when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose) doesn’t care and sallies forth.

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