An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Disappointed
I contacted both of my senators, Corker and Alexander, about the SCHIP. I asked them, quite politely not to vote to override Bush’s veto. I won’t go into all my reasons, I shouldn’t need to.
I got a response, no doubt a ‘form letter’, from Senator Corker (Alexander never bothers to respond):
Thank you for taking the time to contact my office about reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Program (SCHIP). Your input is important to me, and I appreciate the time you took to share your thoughts.
On September 27, I voted to reauthorize and fund SCHIP because I believe it has been an important and successful program and because I made a commitment to Tennesseans to do all that I can to expand access to affordable health insurance. While this reauthorization bill is far from perfect, it does ensure that more low-income children in Tennessee and across America will have health insurance, and I chose to err on the side of securing health benefits for millions of needy children. I believe this is our moral obligation.
Please know that much has been said in this debate that is untrue. I want to emphasize that this reauthorization explicitly prohibits illegal immigrants from receiving Medicaid and SCHIP benefits. This bill requires, for the first time, an established process for states to verify citizenship of enrollees in the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The bill also allows states to create a system using Social Security cards to enforce that citizenship requirement.
As a first step towards comprehensively addressing this healthcare crisis, I, along with Senator Burr (R-NC) and others introduced the Every American Insured Health Act, S.1886, a proposal that ensures all Americans have access to affordable healthcare coverage without contributing to our ballooning national debt. This proposal is meant to be a starting point of a larger debate aimed at addressing a healthcare crisis facing Americas across our country and I look forward to pursuing this important issue.
Thank you again for your letter. I hope you will continue to share your thoughts with me.
Sincerely,
Bob Corker
United States Senator
I have a great deal of empathy (not sympathy….EMPATHY…been there, done that) for the parents of children who don’t have healthcare. Isn’t that why they came up with Medicaid? To provide for those most in need? When did families who made $40,000, $60,000, or $80,000 become a family in need? Perhaps in New York City, or California, where people are damn near taxed to death, but in the rest of the country, someone making 80 grand is doing down right good for themselves, and their families.
I do not trust the government. I really never have. I sure don’t trust them with the healthcare of our children. They can’t even figure out how to balance a checkbook, secure the borders, or keep the citizens safe. And we are suppose to trust them to make sure people aren’t ripping off the system? They haven’t stopped the big rip offs of MediCare! These are the same people who waste time declaring Rush Limbaugh public enemy #1, burbling about a 90 year old incident, that could get our soldiers killed, instead of dealing with serious issues, like protecting the unborn, allowing people to keep their own hard earned money, removing criminal aliens from our streets, and many more too numerous to list.
Perhaps if the government had never gotten into the business of healthcare, and left it to the actual physicians, insurance wouldn’t be so expensive? All the co-pays, percentages of this or that procedure, law suits, etc., have done nothing to improve patient care. It has actually done a great deal of harm.
So, should we trust them in the first step towards socialized medicine? I don’t bloody well think so. Sorry, Senator Corker, you may have just lost my vote!
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I agree, I also got the same letter from Corker. We will have to keep an eye out for this guy!
Wouldn’t it be nice if, just once in a while, these clowns would actually treat us as individuals? sigh….