Here's a right-wing editorial (or perhaps LTTE) masquerading as a news story at my local radio's website,
http://chadrad.com: NE- Illegals Would Be Covered Under The Democrats Plan
By: Walt Winston Posted at: 10/07/2007 08:43 AM
WASHINGTON D.C. / LINCOLN When President Bush vetoed the SCHIP program last week, the main stream press failed to mention a few key points of the veto or the Democrats plan which would raise the tax on cigarettes an additional sixty one cents per pack as well as Illegal immigrants would also have been covered under the Democrats plan which would cost another six and a half billion dollars in spending on the plan. The Federal Government will also rely on additional state funding to support SCHIP. At the current eligibility level, the State of Nebraska allocates $32 million for the program. With the Democrats’ version of the bill, by 2010 the program will cost $4,000 for every new child enrolled. this is $1,700 more than the costs involved in enrolling a child in a private family insurance plan. Democrats want to frame this issue as “protecting more children however, those most in need are going to get left behind. Contrary to what the main stream press is reporting, Republicans care about maximizing the effectiveness of SCHIP and making sure all Nebraska families have affordable health insurance, while the Democrat leadership cares about its political agenda of building a huge faltering bureaucracy of federal health care.
http://chadrad.com/newsstory.cfm?story=8153 What needs to be said in response to this? Thanks for any suggestions. I'm fuming!
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