On my last post here (#65), I attempted to spotlight the incoherent arguments of the fringe that includes Ms. Malkin....although she joined in the lockstep scapegoating of the Frost family of Baltimore (Our president himself, deliberately distorted the argument in his recent news conference....he said that <b>the bill that he had vetoed</b> provided children in families with $80k+ income, healthcare inurance subsidies...).... Malkin had also written this, concerning her own search for health insurance in Maryland:
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.....We discovered that the most generous plans in Maryland’s individual market cost $700 per month yet provide no more than $1,500 per year of prescription drug coverage–a drop in the bucket if someone in our family were to be diagnosed with a serious illness.
With health insurance choices like that, no wonder so many people opt to go uninsured.....
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101702108.html
.....Q: Who would be covered under the bill approved by Congress and vetoed by President Bush?
A: Under the bill, states could receive the full federal matching rate to cover children from families earning as much as three times the poverty level, <h3>or $61,950 for a family of four</h3>. States seeking to cover families with higher incomes would receive a less favorable federal matching rate. In either case, states would have to receive approval from the Bush administration to raise their eligibility levels that high.
About 70 percent of those who gain or retain coverage under the bill would be from families earning less than 200 percent of the poverty level, according to an analysis by the Urban Institute. The analysis includes an assumption that some states would raise eligibility levels.....
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...so, on such a serious issue, why is the president distorting the eligibility provisions in the bill that he vetoed, and why is Malkin harassing the Frosts in her attention getting, partisan endeavors, when she already was on record, admiting that she....with her family in good health, could not find fairly priced health insurance in the same state that the Frosts reside in?
Is there actually no sound argument here....is this simply an attempt to use childrens' health insurance as a pawn in an effort to prevent democratrs from being favorably perceived by "the people"?
What else could the reason be? Shouldn't the president know the main reasons he considered in vetoing the bill....if he did know them, why would he mislead us about the household income caps for federal assistance? If he was sincerely mistaken, why doesn't he admit it, and apologize?