Ryan Ineffective On Health Care Crisis

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The “new” Janesville Gazette, same as the old Janesville Gazette has been on a roll lately. Predictably ripping some of the strongest representation we have in Rock County, both State Rep. Judy Robson and Sen. Russ Feingold. Sunday’s Gazette editorial slamming Feingold for his stance on CAFE was just another rehash of an editorial from a few months ago. Apparently, readers don’t mind paying full price for the brainwashing, the lack of new direction or the constant repetition of the same old attacks and reruns.

JG Sound Off Excerpt:
ON SCHIP: Those who criticize Paul Ryan’s stance should have read his column in Monday’s Gazette. He is for the original SCHIP program and for children but voted against this plan because it added unqualified pork-barrel issues. – anonymous

Politicians, and that includes Democrats, who would put tax dollars, pork spending, taxpayers, saving money, privatization for profits, lower taxes, pork dollars, higher taxes, money or whatever they want to call it ahead of the health care and welfare of any child are pure losers, plain and simple. Particularly so during this time of increased Federal revenue collections, democrats should see no need to compromise this bill.

Paul Ryan Column Excerpt:
Why expand SCHIP to people who already have coverage, when so many low-income children remain uninsured?

This raises the question: Why give tax cuts to people who don’t need them when so many others get by without tax cuts.

Paul Ryan Column Excerpt:
If universal health care is the goal, as proponents claim, this is the wrong pathway.

Universal health care is a goal, but not a goal by expanding SCHIP. This is where Bush and Ryan have stigmatized the expansion of SCHIP by wrongly painting it as spring board to universal health care. It’s not. And lastly……….

Paul Ryan Column Excerpt:
Makes it simple for illegal immigrants to fraudulently qualify for Medicaid and SCHIP – allowing states to disregard the requirement to view actual documents of applicants.

Do you mean the same way illegal immigrants are allowed to fraudulently qualify for a low paying job?

This sounds more like a procedural problem than a policy issue. But let’s pretend it’s not. Let’s face it, 20 million illegal immigrants didn’t sneak in without the help or knowledge of the U.S. government. Once again Bush (and Ryan) feels these people are good enough to work on American soil for poverty level wages but not good enough to qualify for poverty level assistance. Even still, are we going to blame another unresolved issue, illegal immigration, as an excuse to deny expanding health care for children?

Ryan says there’s a better way but doesn’t elaborate. But from what I understand, Ryan’s solution to everything is privatization, thereby distributing all of your health care dollars among the profit takers and speculators first, and let their profitability decide what YOU can afford. This is not what America is about, we’re not a third world country yet…….or are we?

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