Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Senate has been debating the SCHIP children's health insurance extension all week and is working its way through votes on amendments before being called for a final vote later today, barring any further obstructionism by Republican Senators like our own "Senator Obstruction," Jon Kyl:
Senate Republicans say expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) amounts to an attempt by congressional Democrats to socialize the nation’s health-care system.
“One could certainly conclude that,” Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), said in response to questions from CNSNews.com. “This is yet one more way to get people off of private coverage and onto government coverage so that little by little you eventually end up with a majority of people on government coverage.”
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Kyle, the Senate Republican Whip and a member of the Senate Finance Committee, also promised action to contain Democratic expansions of SCHIP.
Call and e-mail Senators Jon Kyl and John McCain now to let them know that it is immoral to deny children necessary health care on the premise that a private insurance company might stand to make a profit off of them (if their parents still had a job and employer-sponsored health care in this economy, or could even afford the outrageous premiums and deductibles on their own).
Our senators would rather see children suffer and possibly die due to the lack of basic health care than ever allow the federal government to provide a service that the private insurance market is either unwilling or unable to provide at an affordable cost because it is not profitable for them to do so. Policy choices are moral choices. It is not "socialism," the favorite boogeyman of every wingnut demagogue like Sen. Kyl.
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It is unAmerican and blatant discrimination for the government to finance the SCHIP program on the backs of tobacco users by adding a $6.10 tax to a carton of cigarettes. It is collective punishmment on a targeted group of Americans and cannot pass the smell test. It is government tyranny at its ugliest.
Even non smokers should protest this shameful and unconscionable collective punishment of tobacco users. It is a draconian regressive tax taken by force from those who can least afford it in these hard economic times.
The fat cats that can buy politicans get their bailouts and helpless tobacco users get royally screwed.
There is NO justification for this blatant discriminatory tax and it should not be allowed to stand.
Claiming that government health care isn’t socialism is akin to claiming that up isn’t up.
You may think that lack of government health care is immoral but other people think allowing government to tax the people to pay for government health care programs is immoral (I do).
If tax revenue could be magically and painlessly obtained I’d vote for socialized medicine but the fact is that tax revenue must be taken – by force – from the people.
Slinging terms like obstructionist or wingnut demagogue or boogeyman is a tranparent effort to demonize those of us who believe government should be limited and that socialism isn’t a preferable method of providing health care.
Make another post that explains how socialized medicine is preferrable to non-socialized medicine but until you do so you aren’t attempting to persuade anybod. Your post is an attempt to brow-beat everybody.
Money is a scarce resource and as such the last place I want it concentrated is government as far too often it will waste it.