Sarah Palin: Health Care Overhaul To Hurt Special Needs (Children)

[Dark Starscream]

Let's not forget that Obama passed federal funding for SCHIP, which provides medicaid to all children whose parents cannot afford healthcare for their children... including the parents of mentally challenged kids. Bush and the Republicans voted AGAINST SCHIP every time.


Wake up Ted.

 

[Zona]

Is this the part where Palin tosses her child in the debate and anyone that points out the stupidity of her usual statements gets basted for "attacking her family"?

You missed the part where they say we are obsessed with her. Wait for it.

 

[geauxtohell]

Is this the part where Palin tosses her child in the debate and anyone that points out the stupidity of her usual statements gets basted for "attacking her family"?

You missed the part where they say we are obsessed with her. Wait for it.

I don't know. Francis normally saves his Palin Zombie pic for OPs started by anti-Palin people.

He's consistently inconsistent like that.

 

[Joe Steel]

This is something she is aware of and she knows the burden that it will have on parents of these kids. She should know. She has one. One thing about this is that she is very passionent about the welfare of not just these special needs children but all Americans. She knows that this disaster of a bill passed against the will of the American people will drive up insurance costs and put most with limited income into bankruptsy. Poor Obama. She is making headlines again hammering him right and left and it is paying off for her with the American people as they wake up they realize that she is right.

On a side note, during her speech tonight the crowd went wild when she said this:

"A special needs child probably won't win a nobel prize. Although the nobel prize isn't what it used to be".

Palin: Health care overhaul to hurt special needs | ajc.com

The federal medical care overhaul would limit contributions to health savings accounts and raise insurance costs for people including those with special needs, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said at a fundraiser Tuesday for developmentally disabled children.

She warned that new rules aiming to raise $13 billion by limiting contributions to flexible spending accounts amount to a "hefty tax hike" for families of special needs children struggling with health care costs. And she said families will wind up with fewer care options.

"Our insurance and our care choices will be diminished by this new program," she said to an audience of several thousand at a suburban Atlanta arena. "The government's taking over one-sixth of our economy and we expect the government's going to do a better job than the private sector?"

She said that she was shocked when doctors told her the news when she was 12 weeks pregnant and wondered if she would be patient enough to handle the challenge. But she said she believed God prepared her heart for her son's birth during the pregnancy....

More in link:

Health Savings Accounts are a tax scam.

Palin is an idiot. Anyone who believes anything she says is a fool.

 

[Gadawg73]

This is something she is aware of and she knows the burden that it will have on parents of these kids. She should know. She has one. One thing about this is that she is very passionent about the welfare of not just these special needs children but all Americans. She knows that this disaster of a bill passed against the will of the American people will drive up insurance costs and put most with limited income into bankruptsy. Poor Obama. She is making headlines again hammering him right and left and it is paying off for her with the American people as they wake up they realize that she is right.

On a side note, during her speech tonight the crowd went wild when she said this:

"A special needs child probably won't win a nobel prize. Although the nobel prize isn't what it used to be".

Palin: Health care overhaul to hurt special needs | ajc.com

The federal medical care overhaul would limit contributions to health savings accounts and raise insurance costs for people including those with special needs, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said at a fundraiser Tuesday for developmentally disabled children.

She warned that new rules aiming to raise $13 billion by limiting contributions to flexible spending accounts amount to a "hefty tax hike" for families of special needs children struggling with health care costs. And she said families will wind up with fewer care options.

"Our insurance and our care choices will be diminished by this new program," she said to an audience of several thousand at a suburban Atlanta arena. "The government's taking over one-sixth of our economy and we expect the government's going to do a better job than the private sector?"

She said that she was shocked when doctors told her the news when she was 12 weeks pregnant and wondered if she would be patient enough to handle the challenge. But she said she believed God prepared her heart for her son's birth during the pregnancy....

More in link:

Health Savings Accounts are a tax scam.

Palin is an idiot. Anyone who believes anything she says is a fool.

Are group health insurance benefits to employees a tax scam?
How is a HSA a tax scam?
I am self employed. If you work for a large company that offers you health insurance that company gets to write off the cost of the health insurance on their taxes. The insurance company pays the costs of care with that policy.
I get to write off all the $ contributed to my HSA, up to $5950 a year, on my taxes.
Exact same thing that a company does with group health insurance. No difference. It leveled the field for the self employed.
More folks contribute to HSA, less government taxes goes to treat the irresponsible.
"I can not afford health insurance, it is too high" says one of my relatives that lives in a 500K home and drives a Mercedes.
Priorities.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Individuals with Down Syndrome are generally eligible for Social Security disability benefits,

you know, the program that conservatives want to abolish.

 

[golfgoddess]

Individuals with Down Syndrome are generally eligible for Social Security disability benefits,

you know, the program that conservatives want to abolish.

They usually are but the payment amount goes down every year. These kids can also work in a work program but if they make to much money, then they lose the SSI. They also are more apt to have more health problems because their bodies age a lot faster than their peers. There is a boy in my son's class who is 19 but has a 60yr old's heart.