S-CHIP-Wreck of our Healthcare

SCHIP is just the ante into the pot for Socialized medicine. And Bush just shot down, with a veto, the Democrats' attempt to raise the ante and move us towards socialized medicine.

What exactly did the Democrats do? They grossly expanded and perverted the program in many ways: They included adults in a "children's" program; they raised taxes yet again (earlier it was on energy, now on cigarettes, tomorrow more income taxes); they increased Government spending and support for illegal aliens. One important socialistic change the Democrats want is for the Government to match based on state funding instead based on state need. That is a huge shift towards states that have over-generous programs and away from states that have more need but are more frugal. ... And for what? So the Democrats could have governmental health insurance a la Canada for " include families with incomes over $83,000 — in short, people who could buy health care but choose not to."

The SCHIP bill veto from President Bush was well-deserved. As IBD says, "Let SCHIP Veto Be Start Of A Trend":

As delivered to the White House, the State Children's Health Insurance Plan, known as SCHIP, was very bad legislation that would have created a massive new entitlement not for the needy, but for the middle class.
Democrats had portrayed SCHIP as a plan "for poor children." So Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid predictably called the veto "heartless." But it was nothing of the sort.
In reality, the bill was a cleverly concocted scheme to move the U.S. toward a nationalized health care system for all — the kind that Europe and Canada are now trying to undo.

IBD ends with:

Democrats like taxes and what they represent — an expansion of the government's power to take your money and spend it, leading to much higher spending and bigger government than we need.
That's why Bush's SCHIP veto is important. He's been criticized for a lack of spending restraint. Well, now he's showing it. Better late than never, we say.

The Democrats are exposing their tax-hiking, over-spending, socialistic pandering ways. If this becomes law, our healthcare system will be shipwrecked by yet more governmental spending, intrusion, taxation, and regulation. Will voters wake up in time for November 2008?