Is this the best Randy can do?
In a strange effort to attack SCHIP, Randy Kuhl has put the following clip on his blog. It’s someone complaining about North Carolina’s implementation of SCHIP. The argumens put forth by the caller aren’t exactly a stinging indictment of SCHIP. And moreover, can’t he find anyone in this part of the country to badmouth it?
This is part of his “throw anything against the wall and see if it sticks” stragedy for dealing with S-CHIP.
I listed to that clip a while back, and IIRC, her “argument” was that someone else would get more than her. Ridiculous.
Is it done yet?
What a bizarre clip to use. I haven’t heard of the payment problem she refers to happening elsewhere. By the way, I really wonder how many people making $80,000 would truly qualify for the updated SCHIP eligibility requirements. I think the Reps are blowing this issue way out of proportion. Nonetheless, I believe everyone should have access to insurance for their children.
On “Meet the Press” the Republican representative on Sunday said that you’d have folks dropping their private insurance since they would now qualify for public insurance. New Jersey’s Governor Corzine said that wasn’t the case. It’s just scare tactics.
Actually, there is a study published on this subject in the prestigious journal “Health Affairs,” which policymakers regularly read. The truth is that SCHIP has considerably constrained the growth in the number of uninsured Americans from what it would have been if it had never been enacted. The way the study was designed the researchers were able to tease out whether SCHIP caused employers to drop coverage. This isn’t the case.
Oh, but you know those crazy academics. You shouldn’t believe a word they say, given they actually study issues using rigorous methodology, as opposed to rigorous ideology.
My son, the CHIP baby:
