Rev. Ted whines about Health Care for Kids

Rev. Ted has his panties in a bunch over President Bush holding his ground on increasing health care for kids. Yep, Teddy Boy is upset because Bush refuses to bow to the sensationalizing spin elected officials are trying to put on his veto of the Bull-SCHIP program....

From the Columbus Discourse --

"What this means is that thousands of needy Ohio children will be deprived of access to critical health-care coverage," Strickland said.

"I am appalled at the heartless decision of the Bush administration to reject Ohio's bipartisan plan to provide health-care access to thousands of our children. Sadly, this is an indication that the president and his advisers are totally out of touch with the struggles faced by so many Ohio families."

That's it Rev. Ted - deflect attention from your failures as our Governor (how's that fixing our schools coming?) and jump on the bleeding heart bandwagon. And Senate President Bill M. Harris, R-Ashland and the other state republicans are no better as many are backing this irresponsible proposal.

Socialists across the country are screaming foul and twisting this into Bush does not like kids. In reality, it is the other way around. Bush DOES want to make sure all kids from economically disadvantaged families get health care - and that is the problem.

Bush say's get all the kids from the poorest families enrolled first - then we can talk about increasing the program to include other children. The Prez also wants all the loopholes closed that will allow illegal immigrants to obtain health care under this first step toward government run health care.

....states must get at least 95 percent of children in families with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty level enrolled in the program before eligibility could be expanded. No state meets that benchmark.

Look people, I find it hard to believe anybody is against depriving needy children of anything. I know I am surely not - but blindly expanding this program will do nothing but increase the burden health care is placing on all Americans today.

Throwing good money after bad money is not the way to solve the health care problem plaguing our country today. We need to act responsible and stop the problem where it starts - the astronomically high costs being charged by the medical & insurance industries that are fleecing everyday Americans.

I have posted before on how whenever someone tries to reign in these costs they are met with resistence. Believe it or not, the one government agency we all the love to hate- the IRS - is trying to help by asking non-profit hospitals to justify this most cherished status. With the help of U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the darling democrat from Cleveland, these multi-million dollar health care corporations, that pay no taxes, are refusing to be accountable.

I find it ironic the democrats who always bellow that "republicans are for big business" are trying to advance an ill-fated plan that will increase the bottom line for the corporate elite of the medical & insurance companies.