I did't say it was in Q&A section.

• Someone should tell him he won...why is he still campaigning every day - in our face....ugh....so tired of him already
  • Don't mind him in my face. He's easy - on the eyes.
    • Are you kidding me? Gross! - sm
    • Just give him a couple years in office - just wait
    • Oh, yeah... (especially shirtless!) - :o)
      • That reminded me of Putin's staged pictures with the tigers. - photo op to the max.
        • Putin had just received the baby tigers as a gift. - Could also be media coverage
        • I don't think he asked for that picture - - Amanda
    • and that in itself - ditzil
    • Nothing good comes from trying to - jj
  • Then you'll just have to do what the dems did since 2000 - sm
    • Then how can you sit and try to blame - everything you don't like
  • He's not campaigning...(sm) - Just the big bad
    • Lots of doom and gloom coming from Obama lately... - doesn't refresh me one bit.
    • I especially enjoyed the real refreshing lie I caught him in the other day...did you catch it? - see inside
      • And your source is?....nm - Just the big bad
        • His news conference yesterday...and there are a few real conservative economists left in the world.. - not the yes men that have drank the kool aid
          • This is a perfect example....(sm) - Just the big bad
          • These guys don't drink Kool-Aid. - jj
          • Bah-loney. He said no such thing. - Lie patrol at your door
            • Sure he did. But it'll never be believed by you. But I'd believe my husband before I would - the biased liberal media and you.
              • Still can't come up with that source citation. - Can;t blast down what doesn't exist.
            • You can take no criticism of your idol, can you, even when true in on - see inside
              • I did't say it was in Q&A section. - Waiting fo reliable source from original poster.
              • I think Obama supporters can see the some negatives. - Kim
    • I agree with you - New Englander
      • LOL....that's a start...(sm) - Just the big bad
        • AHAAAAAA HAAAAA - Foot channel - my bad - New Englander
      • yum ill take some of that! - Emily Ayn
        • mmmm....and in 4 years I'll have to subscribe to the weight watcher channel - New Englander

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Not Administered by the Government

But SCHIP isn't the kind of program where government officials make medical decisions. Under SCHIP, children are enrolled in private health insurance.

"Typically, children have a choice from among competing private health-insurance companies," says Stan Dorn, a senior research associate with the Urban Institute, a Washington-based think tank. "There's no federally specified benefits package. There's no individual entitlement."

The president also complained that the bill would cover too many children who don't need federal help. "This program expands coverage, federal coverage, up to families earning $83,000 a year. That doesn't sound poor to me," the president told the Lancaster audience.

Dorn says that's not exactly right, either. "This bill would actually put new limits in place to keep states from going to very high-income levels. SCHIP money would no longer be available over 300 percent of the federal poverty level, which is about $60,000 for a family of four."

The president gets to make the $83,000 claim because New York had wanted to allow children in families with incomes up to four times the poverty level onto the program. That is, indeed, $82,600. The Department of Health and Human Services rejected New York's plan last month, and under the bill, that denial would stand. White House officials warn, however, that the bill would allow a future administration to grant New York's request.

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