Illegal Aliens Will Have Access to New SCHIP Expansion, Smokers to Pay For It
Yesterday the United States House of Representatives voted to increase the SCHIP program. Sounds wonderful doesn’t it? After all this is a program that insures poor children, or at least it was. Now it is just turning into a program to insure the children, even those who were already covered under their parent’s insurance. This is another attempt at eliminating parent responsibility and replacing it with Big Brother government intervention.
It contains big tax increases so Washington can take kids off private health insurance and put them on public subsidies.
So what? All this money goes to insure poor kids, right? Nope. House Republicans introduced a measure to guarantee that low-income children would be first in line to receive the subsidized insurance. Democrats, including New Hampshire’s U.S. Reps. Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes, killed it.
The expansion would make eligible for federally subsidized insurance about 2 million children who are currently covered by private health insurance. It would cover families making as much as three times the federal poverty level.
This is a big tax increase to pay for a middle-class entitlement.
So how do they plan to pay for this entitlement, which in case you missed it covers poor families who make over three times the poverty level? By taxing a politically vulgar group. The smokers.
The bill raises the federal tax on a pack of cigarettes from 39 cents to $1. It raises taxes on small cigars to $12.50 per 1,000 cigars this year, then to $50 per 1,000 in 2015! The tax rate on large cigars is raised to more than 50 percent, with a cap of 40 cents per cigar — eight times the current tax.
So let me get this straight, in order to provide healthcare to the children of families who already have healthcare, the Democrats want to impose a tax that will disproportionally hurt the poorer families. Yeah, that makes sense.
But it gets even worse. There is a provision that would provide healthcare to children of illegal aliens on a temporary basis.
The bill also allows for immigrants, both legal and illegal, to access SCHIP funds, although illegal immigrants may only do so for 90 days.
But the bill eliminates the need for an immigrant to show a photo ID or papers proving that he/she is legal.
The bill removes previous requirements, currently required under Medicaid, that mandate new enrollees provide photo identification and documentation proving citizenship, such as a green card or passport, when applying for SCHIP.
The only document that an immigrant will have to show is a social security number.
The new language strips this proposal and says that states can accept Social Security numbers as proof of citizenship
If an illegal alien steals your social security number they will be able to use it to gain taxpayer funded health insurance. What are the chances of that happening? Well, I hear commercials on the radio all the time that claim that identity fraud is the fastest growing crime in America, and judging by legislation such as the expansion of SCHIP I am not surprised.
This bill is being fast-tracked and should appear on President Obama’s desk shortly after taking office.
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