LTE, City Newspaper-Kuhl’s right on S-chip, Pe-lease!
Wow, I just located this-Somebody out there has not been paying attention, or is drinking the kool-aid at an alarming rate:
POLITICS: Kuhl’s right on S-chip
On Nov. 28th, 2007
In response to Ruth Davis, who criticized Representative Randy Kuhl for voting against the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (Letters, October 31): instead of receiving criticism, Representative Kuhl deserves our thanks for taking this bold stand.The fact is that this bill, if allowed to become law, would have increased the limit of those eligible to age 24. Are these “children” or adults? It would also have raised the threshold of family income to the point that families earning up to $80,000 would be eligible. Are these people “poor”? In addition, it would have cost some $45 billion.
While Randy Kuhl is in favor of helping poor children obtain good health insurance, I believe that he could not, in good conscience, vote for this unrealistically expanded program. In my opinion, this is exactly the kind of action that a good representative should take. I am glad he represents me
If this fine, outstanding citizen had read anything about the program, he would have realized that the $80,000 dollar limit had been suggested, but was not part of the bill that was up for a vote (from Sept 7) :
“The president has been served wrong information about what our bill will do,” Grassley said Thursday between Senate votes. “There’s nothing in our bill that would do that. His understanding of the bill was wrong.”
Bush, in a morning news conference, told reporters that “Congress has made the decision to expand the program up to $80,000. … This is a step toward federalization of health care.”
Grassley said that a waiver to allow higher income families to utilize SCHIP has been taken out of the conference committee compromise forged between House and Senate negotiators over the past two days.
And in regards to the coverage of those who are 24 years old, that is how long kids are covered under their parents health insurance while they are going to school. Does this letter writer believe that anyone 18 years old is going to be able to get a job where he is either covered by his employer, or can afford health care coverage on his own? Wake up and smell the health care dilemma in this country-it reeks of death and decay.
The last point I would just like to make is this: “I’m glad he represents me?!?”
This guy must be sitting in the boat, floating down the river next to Randy, sipping on his grape kool-aid.
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Well, that LTE is about as clearly a plant as any of the others we’ve seen in the last few years. Just his partisans trying to spin his crappy record into a diamond, that’s all.
Republicans seem to be good at planting. First FEMA now Condi Rice has been outed as having an aide plant a question about her future presidential aspirations in order to deflect her abysmal record as a national security advisor. They must take planting questions as their new crops.