HOUSE and SENATE Key Vote Alert - SCHIP
KEY VOTE ALERT
"NO" on "SCHIP Reauthorization"
The Club for Growth urges Members of Congress to vote "NO" on the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program AND to vote to sustain a veto if President Bush issues one. This key vote will be part of our 2007 Congressional Scorecard.
This proposal, which uses tax hikes to expand the welfare state, is the embodiment of bloated, big government spending. It's also a backdoor maneuver into nationalizing health care for all citizens.
Cato Institute's Michael Cannon writes, "Like its much larger sibling Medicaid, the [SCHIP] program forces taxpayers to send their money to Washington so that Congress can send it back to state governments with strings attached. Both programs force taxpayers to subsidize people who don't need help, discourage low-income families from climbing the economic ladder - and make private insurance more expensive for everyone else."
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