SCHIP is a program that provides health care to children whose families make too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to afford private health insurance.
It’s a program that provides medical care, including preventive medical care, to innocent children. According to the Bush Administration, we shouldn’t offer it, because these families can supposedly drive their kids to hospital emergency rooms for their preventative care.
These kids are from families that don’t make much, in the range of $51,625 for a family of four. These are the working poor and the working middle class. To put this in perspective, the cost of insurance for a family of four is closing in on $1000/month. [2] What are the odds that a family making in the range of $51,625 is shelling out 20% of their gross income for health insurance?
What should a responsible government do to make certain that children who are not covered by Medicaid (these children aren’t) are covered? It’s difficult to find an issue where the differences in ideology between conservatives and progressives are more stark.
To learn more, see the video at this site. [1]
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