Our daughters were uninsured until last week, because we couldn’t afford the crazy amount COBRA wanted to charge us to keep our health insurance. The girls are now benefiting from SCHIP with their new paper Medicare cards. However, if we make too much any one month from our freelance income, we could lose their coverage. Until Aaron can find a job with insurance, we have to make sure to keep ourselves “poor enough” to keep health insurance for our children, or we’d better make a fortune to afford the private plans out there. (Many of which don’t even want to touch Cordy because of her autism.)

Healthcare needs reformed. No child in this country should have access to quality healthcare restricted.

Back to the current issue of uninsured kids, it’s outrageous. Anyone remember Bush saying a few months back that “there’s no problem with healthcare, anyone can go to the emergency room”. They are all out of touch.

” Hispanic, black and Asian-American members of Congress have complained that the bill does not provide coverage for legal immigrants who are now generally barred from benefits under Medicaid and the children’s health program during their first five years in the United States.

Many Democrats would like to lift those restrictions. But if they tried to do so, they could draw Congress into a bitter debate over immigration policy.”

Personally, I think illegal and legal immigrant children should be taken care of. ALL children should be taken care of.

You can also see how this works under Senator’s Obama’s plan in the link I provided above…it’s a pdf

http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/Obama08_HealthcareFAQ.pdf

I have a question, though.

Out of those 9 million children, how many are the children of illegal immigrants? Are we going to have to be burdened with having to cover the health care costs for people who do not come here legally? What is going to be done to be sure that legal children of America get their needs met first? Or is it going to be blind to legal status?

And what happens under universal healthcare? What happens to SCHIP then? Wouldn’t all people, including children be covered?

Just asking.

Thanks.

Imagine the ad: George Bush and John McCain don’t care if your kids are sick. They don’t want them to see the doctor….

But no. They squandered a terrific political opportunity to shame the Republicans because…why?