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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I am catching on to the pretense of the Democratic party and how they "care" about poor people. They can keep their programs designed to entrap the poor into staying poor by adding layers of disincentives to earn income and accumulate assets or to turn them into people who have cheat/game the system
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I think I read that in all but three states a family's assets are not considered at all in determining eligibility for SCHIP. Didn't the bill's supporters recently have a news media event with a child receiving SCHIP who's parents had over $200,000 in assets including a house, 3 cars and a business? Also this family already qualifies for SCHIP under the existing program without expanding it. It does not seem fair to force taxpayers of lesser means to subsidize people with such large assets as well as expand the program to those of even higher incomes.