Monday, May 4, 2009

Christ's Contempt and Fischer's Lies

You know who Jesus hated? Pregnant women and indigent children. And in keeping with Christ’s disdain for the poor and pregnant, Bryan Fischer recently renewed his whining about the federal re-authorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which extends health benefits to 11 million uninsured poor children and pregnant women.

In a patent lie, Fischer writes that the ‘budget-busting SCHIP bill … raises taxes mostly on the poor ... by $32 billon.’ Actually Bryan, the increased costs of SCHIP have been offset by an increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco. We’re not sure how this equates to increasing the tax burden of America’s poor. We’re even more confused that you purport to be an advocate for the poor while working simultaneously to deny them health coverage. And heaven forbid chain smokers contribute to rising health care costs on a consumption basis.

Let us also ignore the facts that SCHIP saves money by reducing the numbers of uninsured seeking care in Emergency Rooms and that SCHIP provides an economically competitive alternative to private insurance while offering a greater range of benefits.

We can imagine Bryan writhing in antipathy at the thought of 11 million dirty whelps receiving free immunizations. After all, happy, well-insured children who are healthy enough to attend school have nothing to do with making Idaho the friendliest place in the world to raise a family.

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  1. Love the blog, love the content...thought about doing the same thing myself for a while, glad someone did.

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