Children’s Health Insurance Program ?expired 19 days ago.
11 states run out of?by 12/31.
The House is on recess. https://t.co/rjazD05zxM
— Jason Sparks (@sparksjls) October 19, 2017
Call Congress and tell them to take care of the kids.
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JPL
Tax cuts!
Immanentize
As Atrios often says, “We just love love love our children so much!” General Kelly probably thinks they are sacred!
Brachiator
Free Market Jesus loves the children,
All the children of the world
Be they yellow, black or white,
They are precious in his sight,
Free Market Jesus loves the children of the world
As long as they are not refugees, Latinos, or Muslims, or trouble making blacks, and don’t need health insurance, the lazy moochers.
Mary G
It’s a sin how the media has allowed this story to disappear.
JPL
@Mary G: The Congress will pass a budget tonight that cuts 1 1/2 trillion from medicare and medicaid tonight. It hasn’t been mentioned, but I blame Trump. He creates such chaos, that most journalists are running from one story to the next.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
We can’t worry about children when some general officer somewhere might have a case of the sad feels…
p.a.
Paging Anderson Mayhew*:
CNN chyron says under Senate plan $ goes to consumers, not insurers (no sound on gym tv). CNN correct? If Y, any implications for plan offerings, consumer choices?
*Excellent name for James Spader-like teen character.
SatanicPanic
@Mary G: the USA right now is like a car we ignore all the funny sounds coming from it and refuse to do any maintenance on. It’ll keep running for a while, but sooner or later it’s going to fall apart.
Mr. Wu's Pigs
Who knows if it helps or not, but I’ve made 30-50 calls about CHIP and other issues.
@MaryG you nailed it!
Duane
No level of hell is grotesque enough for the lousy Republican bastards who hold children’s health care hostage for their ideological evil. There’s nothing this filth does that doesn’t reek of the most vile of things.
Ohio Mom
Portman’s interns have told me that he supports CHIP and will be voting for it — I’ve called every couple of days since it expired.
At first, I took that as good news. I mean, if Mr. Typical Republican is for it, maybe it’s safe?
But then I looked at myself in the mirror and shook my head. I am smarter than letting my hopes interfer with really seeing what is going on. It is silly to trust any Republican.
Ohio Mom
@JPL: Yes, Trump creates chaos but that is not why the budget with its drastic tax cuts is not being highlighted.
It is because journalists are in the business of selling stories. Weinstein sells papers/gets eyeballs, so they run with that. Not too many people want to read the details of a proposed federal budget.
I am related by marriage to two newspaper people. I will never forget the state editor gushing about a local hatchet murder that was really bumping up the circulation numbers to new highs. In front of my then eight year old, who didn’t need to hear all the grisly details.