KEEPING THE FAITH
ACTION ALERT
January 13, 2009
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House to Vote on 'Hillary-Care'
for Kids!
from:
The Eagle Forum
January 13, 2009
Call your Senators today and urge them to vote against
the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act!
The House is scheduled to vote on the reauthorization and expansion of the
State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) on Wednesday, January
14th. The House will convene at 10:00 a.m. to begin legislative business, so
your calls and emails are urgently needed! Sponsored by Rep. Frank
Pallone (D-NJ), the State Children's Health Insurance Program
Reauthorization Act of 2009 (H.R. 2), would amend Title XXI of the
Social Security Act to both reauthorize the program for the next five years
and to expand the program to higher income families. If the bill is not
reauthorized, SCHIP will expire on March 31, 2009. Because the Majority
realizes that the American people do not want SCHIP to be expanded and
remade into a universal entitlement program-basically a version of
"Hillary-Care" for kids -- they kept secret the text of the bill until the
afternoon before the scheduled vote. After a quick study of the language,
the bill appears to contain the following problems:
- Promotes massive government-run health care at
taxpayer's expense. H.R. 2 calls for a spending increase of over $50
billion above and beyond the current levels for the next five years.
- Increases taxes on working families by instituting
a tobacco tax increase of 61 cents per pack. This tax increase -- an
156% spike in the price -- will hurt the low and middle-income families
the hardest, while scape-goating only a certain segment of the American
population (smokers) for using a legal product.
- Provides SCHIP benefits to adults, in addition to
children. H.R. 2 allows for the treatment of "pregnant women" as
children, rather than covering and providing for the treatment of the
unborn child. The current program already covers an estimated 6 million
children and this reauthorization is intended to extend coverage to an
additional 4 million people.
- Cancels the requirement that participants in the
SCHIP program provide documents verifying their citizenship. This
opens to the door to fraud and targets populations such as illegal
immigrants.
- Repeals the ban on legal immigrants from receiving
federal health benefits during their first five years in the United
States. The new provision gives the states the option to bypass the
5-year waiting period and provide coverage, placing U.S. citizens'
eligibility on par with that of non-citizens'.
It is important to keep in mind that House Republicans
created SCHIP back in 1997 in order to help needy children in low-income
families. Today, congressional liberals have hijacked the program in order
to further their goal of massively expanding government-run health care.
President Bush twice vetoed previous attempts to massively expand SCHIP in
2007 and 2008.
Eagle Forum will keep you updated as more information
and thorough analysis of this bill becomes available. Be sure to check back
at the Eagle
Forum website!
Please start calling your Representatives now and tell them to remove the
tobacco tax, cut spending levels, and restore the immigration and
verification provisions! This vote is planned for early Wednesday, January
14th!
Take Action!
Write your Representative
Call Capitol Switchboard: (202)-224-3121
Eagle Forum • 316 Pennsylvania
Avenue SE, Suite 203
Washington, DC 20003
202.544.0353 • fax 202.547.6996
Thank you for Keeping The Faith,
Sadie Fields
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