Bob Goodlatte and SCHIT (I mean SCHIP)

By: Marinemec1
Published On: 11/1/2007 3:28:39 AM

First, let me take a minute and explain SCHIT to you. I don't mean crap, I mean Statewide Children's Health care Is Terminated. I know that the program was not cut, but if the other guys can twist words and acronyms to mean whatever they want, why can't I? A really great article came out in the Roanoke Times the other day about the SCHIP veto. There is a family here in Roanoke, and the father who I believe was the sole provider for the family had recently received a $1 an hour raise at work, which put their family out of reach of SCHIP assistance. Whats the problem with that? Well, problem is they have a child (that gets sick often) and they cannot afford other insurance programs out there.

I am sure there are a lot of things you can get for a dollar, but I'm pretty sure Health Insurance is not one of them. If there is one thing I would really like to know is what was going through Bob Goodlatte's mind when he voted against the bill, and why he continues to support the President. Here is a guy who votes his party line 99% of the time, and is one of the most conservitive men in the House of Representatives. A friend of mine at work was telling me that (this is not a direct quote) but "Saying you like kids is great, but don't say you like kids if your just going to drop kick them across a room." I agree that saying you like kids, then vetoing a bill to make sure they can be insured is pretty much like drop kicking a kid across a room. I'm not saying Goodlatte would actually kick a kid across a room, but what I am saying is, if your kid gets kicked, you can blame Goodlatte for not helping you get the insurance coverage you need to cover up those cuts.

I am so tired of my "representative" not serving the better good of the citizens of this district. It is time we elect someone who is willing to go out there and do the right thing for everyone involved. Sam Rasoul is a candidate who believes that we can do more then we are doing now, he believes in fighting for those things that we as humans should inherently have. Its time we all step up and put someone who will actually do something good, instead of working against the common good of the citizens.

Comments



Goodlatte is a Lost Cause (KathyinBlacksburg - 11/2/2007 10:55:47 AM)
Goodlatte is a lost cause in the extreme.  It is hard to believe that, even in a district like his, he still gets elected over and over. 

His vote against health care for children of low income families is appalling.  We are paying for his health care, yet he would deny it to those who cannot afford thousands of dollars from already-stretched salaries. 

Just this week the Roanoke Times ran an excellent editorial by Beh Macy here.

The surreal method of computing who falls below the "poverty" line is outed by Macy for the arcane and fraudulent measure it is.  Her column should be read by anyone who thinks that the affected children should just have "on-your-ownership" insurance. 

The programs proposed by some candidates for president, from both parties, which intend to simply take wages from the working poor and hand it to insurance companies amount to nothing more than unlimited taken-by-force subsidies to insurance companies.  There seems to be little regard for how people will put food on the table.  Without suitable, targeted re-regulation of this industry there is little hope any such proposals.



A clarification/addenda to my comment above (KathyinBlacksburg - 11/2/2007 11:03:50 AM)
Beth Macy wrote a news story Monday, but Elizabeth Strother subsequently published a compelling editorial concerning the computation of "poverty level."  I actually linked Strother's editorial above.  Find Macy's news story here. So I want to give BOTH credit for helping clarify this subject.

There's been too much spin about the subject and a reality check was long overdue, but very appreciated nonetheless.