Comments on: SCHIP Funding and Fiscal Irresponsibility http://www.highlighthealth.com/healthcare/schip-funding-and-fiscal-irresponsibility/ Discover the Science of Health Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:07:49 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Unintelligent Design: Pediatric Grand Rounds Volume 2 Edition 9..... http://www.highlighthealth.com/healthcare/schip-funding-and-fiscal-irresponsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-1817 Unintelligent Design: Pediatric Grand Rounds Volume 2 Edition 9..... Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:52:47 +0000 http://www.highlighthealth.com/healthcare/schip-funding-and-fiscal-irresponsibility/#comment-1817 [...] should go into SCHIP and where the money should come from. Walter from Highlight Health discusses SCHIP funding and fiscal responsibility in his submission. His second submission tackles the increasing availability of prescription drugs [...] [...] should go into SCHIP and where the money should come from. Walter from Highlight Health discusses SCHIP funding and fiscal responsibility in his submission. His second submission tackles the increasing availability of prescription drugs [...]

]]> By: Scott http://www.highlighthealth.com/healthcare/schip-funding-and-fiscal-irresponsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-1716 Scott Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:52:02 +0000 http://www.highlighthealth.com/healthcare/schip-funding-and-fiscal-irresponsibility/#comment-1716 This may bankrupt our country, but what are the odds that any of the current Congressmen or Senators will still be in office by 2040? It looks great now and who can argue against the health of our nation's children? Matter of fact, we may end up with healthier adults by 2040 just from prohibitive costs of tobacco products (the bill does include higher taxes on other forms of tobacco than just cigarettes I hope). So not only will the children be healthier, but adults (and children) will have one less vice to partake in too. It's a win-win for votes and health, besides who really cares what happens way off in 2040? (I am being very sarcastic!) This of course is assuming that the FDA remains clueless about how deadly tobacco can be on human life and never bans it. If it is ever banned, then of course the budget on this bill and many others will be in great trouble. I think the title of this article has a great deal to say about this subject matter. Fiscal Irresponsibility with probably a greater emphasis on Irresponsibility. It is too easy to ignore the future and assume that someone else will deal with it. It is refreshing to see that the folks in Washington are trying to lookout for the future health of our nation's children and their parents, but at what cost to this Nation? Is this a case of throwing the baby out the window with the bathwater? Could the state of future debt ever reach a point where it could jeopardize the very existence of industries that are currently thriving on the wasteful spending? If there comes a point of correction and attempts to eliminate our national debt results in drastic alterations in funding as we know it today, what will happen to institutions that are accustomed to the current cash flow? Will it cripple our ability to maintain our current standards for health care? Will corporate America and WallStreet as we know it today be merely ghosts in the future? Hmm"¦ What will be the impact on our nation if our folks in Washington are successful in bankrupting this nation, and who can argue that they are not doing a great job so far? Yes. Irresponsibility on a grand scale cannot undermine the fact that today and at least for the very near future more children will get the health care they not only need, but deserve. So, this brings up a difficult question; which is the lesser of two evils, denying justifiable healthcare to our children, or potently destroying their future by placing the tremendous burden our national deficit will undoubtedly create upon their shoulders? Who is truly brave enough to standup and make the right decision or our children's future? 2040? Hmm (with sad remorse)"¦ I hope and pray our children will be far wiser than what our legacy is proving us to be. This may bankrupt our country, but what are the odds that any of the current Congressmen or Senators will still be in office by 2040?

It looks great now and who can argue against the health of our nation’s children? Matter of fact, we may end up with healthier adults by 2040 just from prohibitive costs of tobacco products (the bill does include higher taxes on other forms of tobacco than just cigarettes I hope). So not only will the children be healthier, but adults (and children) will have one less vice to partake in too. It’s a win-win for votes and health, besides who really cares what happens way off in 2040? (I am being very sarcastic!)

This of course is assuming that the FDA remains clueless about how deadly tobacco can be on human life and never bans it. If it is ever banned, then of course the budget on this bill and many others will be in great trouble.

I think the title of this article has a great deal to say about this subject matter. Fiscal Irresponsibility with probably a greater emphasis on Irresponsibility. It is too easy to ignore the future and assume that someone else will deal with it. It is refreshing to see that the folks in Washington are trying to lookout for the future health of our nation’s children and their parents, but at what cost to this Nation? Is this a case of throwing the baby out the window with the bathwater? Could the state of future debt ever reach a point where it could jeopardize the very existence of industries that are currently thriving on the wasteful spending? If there comes a point of correction and attempts to eliminate our national debt results in drastic alterations in funding as we know it today, what will happen to institutions that are accustomed to the current cash flow? Will it cripple our ability to maintain our current standards for health care? Will corporate America and WallStreet as we know it today be merely ghosts in the future? Hmm”¦ What will be the impact on our nation if our folks in Washington are successful in bankrupting this nation, and who can argue that they are not doing a great job so far?

Yes. Irresponsibility on a grand scale cannot undermine the fact that today and at least for the very near future more children will get the health care they not only need, but deserve. So, this brings up a difficult question; which is the lesser of two evils, denying justifiable healthcare to our children, or potently destroying their future by placing the tremendous burden our national deficit will undoubtedly create upon their shoulders?

Who is truly brave enough to standup and make the right decision or our children’s future? 2040? Hmm (with sad remorse)”¦ I hope and pray our children will be far wiser than what our legacy is proving us to be.

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