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Originally Posted by Redux
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.
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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:
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“The State of Kids’ Coverage” was released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). 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. In the same period, the number of uninsured Americans has increased by nearly 5 million people.
The percentage of children who have private health insurance has fallen by five percent since 1997-98. That means 1.4 million fewer kids have private health insurance.
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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.