So your rebuttal will now be "ACORN....." in every political discussion when you dont want to respond directly to a factual post on the topic under discussion?

Choke on this video link:

http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2...et-his-agenda/

Repeat:

So your rebuttal will now be "ACORN....." in every political discussion when you dont want to respond directly to a factual post on the topic under discussion?

I get it!

Actually no, but I didn't bring up Joe Wilson in the healthcare thread either. :lol2:

Cool....then lets focus on your (?) contention that the government cant do anything right...particularly in health care.

Please cite where the SCHIP program that provides health care to millions of kids of working families has not been efficient, successful and accepted enthusiastically by all parties involved, particularly (parents of) patients and health care providers.

The only inefficiencies I have heard from those oppososed to the program is that many eligible families have not signed up for the program - so it must not be working, despite the fact that it is working extraordinarily well for 6+ million kids.

So your rebuttal will now be Joe Wilson called the President a liar in every political discussion when you dont want to respond directly to a factual post on the topic under discussion?

Nope..I simply thought it was a bit hypocritical for Wilson to complain about illegal immigrants getting health care two months after he sponsored a bill to give resident status to an illegal.

But, back to topic: health care and your contention that the government cant do it right.

SCHIP and 6+ millions kids of working families now receiving quality, efficient, health care.

SO whats wrong with SCHIP? How is it inefficient and how could the private sector alone do it better?

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ps. I promise not to bring up Wilson again in an unrelated discussion if you do the same with ACORN. ;)

Actually what was stated is that in a general sense the government has failed to adequately administer most anything it touches that does not involve waste, abuse, and mismanagement.

In the case of SCHIP RWF has reported the following. In all its good it has basically failed:

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2006/august...uccess_and.php

This is a great link by the KFF that shows how it fell short:

http://www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/7758.pdf

I fully support SCHIP.

FTR I think Wilson was out of line. I do not support him or his comments. They were out of line and disrespectful. He should be publically admonished.

I would not characterize this as a failure:

...a new study analyzing government data suggests good news for the nation’s children. The percentage of uninsured kids in America has decreased by 20 percent since the government-funded State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was approved by Congress in 1997.

...The report shows that the number of uninsured children has decreased by 2 million since the creation of SCHIP and recent expansions in public programs.

So we are in agreement that SCHIP, a government administered health care program, is not wasteful, fraudulent or mismanaged, other than falling short of keeping up with more and more working families loosing their private health insurance.

But yet the number of uninsured has risen above that covered. Hence it has failed to do what it was designed to do..[/quote] But yet the number of uninsured has risen above that covered. Hence it has failed to do what it was designed to do.


No absolutely not.

So how well has SCHIP done since Jan 09 when the Demoncrats and Obama took over and more than 2 million are out of work. The numbers are still out there, but I doubt SCHIP provided for all those familes, hence hundreds of thousands have no healthcare. Right? Or did SCHIP cover those who have lost jobs since The Dems took over?

http://pnhp.org/blog/2009/03/17/schi...ncrementalism/

Well, then I guess we disagree.

I dont think it is a failure of the program simply because SCHIP cannot keep up with the record rate at which working families have been loosing their health insurance over the last 10 years since the program's inception.

It is a failure of the health care system as a whole (as noted in your bolding above) and it is not limited to the actions of the Democrats in the last two years.

I have no idea how many additional kids have been covered since Obama signed the extension in February. Presumably, more than those who were left uncovered by Bush's two vetos of the bill.

I guess you've got a mouse in your pocket.

The problem is not over the last 10 years, the problem is the last 9 months!