This is outrageous. The supposedly GOP-controlled House quietly voted 289-139 on Jan. 13 to expand the children’s SCHIP government health care program to families making $85,000 a year. That’s even though only about 5 percent of middle class kids lack health insurance and most of them are already covered by private health care plans.
The inevitable result? Private employers will begin dumping family health insurance plans, says a 2007 Congressional Budget Office study, throwing these kids on the backs of the taxpayers and forcing middle class kids onto the government dole.
With friends like this, who needs enemies?
