Dumbest Representative of the day
I hate calling people liars. I guess it is my upbringing. I’ll have to talk to my mother about that.
Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas wins today’s award. There is not one thing that he said about the S-Chip bill that was correct. So either he needs to fire his staff or he needs his mouth washed out with soap. Oh, BTW, S-Chip can NOT be used for non-citizens.
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From WaPo:
Q: How does the program work and who does it cover now?
A: The $5 billion-a-year program was created 10 years ago with the goal of covering children from families with annual incomes at or below about twice the poverty level, or $41,300 for a family of four. The target population is children whose parents earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford private insurance on their own.
Currently, 18 states and the District of Columbia have eligibility levels above 200 percent of the poverty level. New Jersey is the highest at 350 percent. No other state is above 300 percent.
About 6.6 million children and 671,000 adults received health coverage through SCHIP in 2006, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
About 83 percent of those enrolled were children at or below 200 percent of the poverty level, and another 9 percent were low income adults, according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS). The remaining 8 percent were children from families with incomes above twice the poverty level. (more…)
[...] Dumbest Representative of the day I hate calling people liars. I guess it is my upbringing. I’ll have to talk to my mother about that. Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas wins today’s award. There is not one thing that he said about the S-Chip bill that was correct. So either he needs to fire his staff or he needs his… [...]