Cavuto makes the SCHIP Veto an Immigration Issue

Fux News Neal Cavuto on the impending SCHIP veto claiming that the bipartisan bill is wrong because it might provide healthcare benefits for the children of illegal immigtants. Watch Video



It's goes along as it usual does, one talking head after another repeating one talking point after another.

• Some kids who've been brought to the U.S. illegally would be covered.
• SCHIP is a back door to give the government controlled of healthcare.
• It's a trojan house toward socialized medicine
• Universal Healthcare would hurt the country.
• $83,000 is ridiculously high limit to provide children healthcare

Except that they happen to let one Fauxmacrat Strategist Regina Calcaterra in the studio without first giving her the script which says (Though shalt not make a salient point before the Lord and Master Cavuto!)

Oops.

She managed to point out that her own personal experience in foster care would have left her an her siblings dead if they didn't have access to healthcare via Medicaid. She also pointed out that the President said this to the UN General Assembly this past Tuesday.

When millions of children starve to death or perish from a mosquito bite, we're not doing our duty in the world.

Malaria is another common killer. In some countries, malaria takes as many lives as HIV/AIDS -- the vast majority of them children under the age of five years old. Every one of these deaths is unnecessary, because the disease is preventable and treatable. The world knows what it takes to stop malaria -- bed nets and indoor spraying and medicine to treat the disease. Two years ago, America launched a $1.2 billion malaria initiative. Other nations and the private sector are making vital contributions, as well. I call on every member state to maintain its focus, find new ways to join this cause, and bring us closer to the day when malaria deaths are no more.

So while we're spending $1.2 billion to save children suffering from malaria around the world we can't do the same for children in our own country who don't have healthcare?

Of course Cavuto cut her off in mid-sentence and started drilling in:

• Were you an illegal at the time? (No)
• We don't have unlimited resources do we?
• Good intentions also have a price?
• We have a tough enough time taking care of those that are from here, right?
• And there's a limit on how much we can afford to spend?

Interesting that no one on the right brings up these issues when we're discussing the $190 billion Iraq supplemental.

One other neo-commenter claims that children aren't dying because they can always go the "emergency room" - as if no one ever arrives too late, or that there's no such thing as preventative medicine which would help keep a cold from turning into pneumonia at a far lower cost than treating a chronic disease or condition. And it's not like people die in emergency rooms, because actually they do.

LOS ANGELES - A woman who lay bleeding on the emergency room floor of a troubled inner-city hospital died after 911 dispatchers refused to contact paramedics or an ambulance to take her to another facility, newly released tapes of the emergency calls reveal.

In the recordings of two 911 calls that day, first obtained by the Los Angeles Times under a California Public Records Act request, callers pleaded for help for Rodriguez but were referred to hospital staff instead.

“I’m in the emergency room. My wife is dying and the nurses don’t want to help her out,” Rodriguez’s boyfriend, Jose Prado, is heard saying in Spanish through an interpreter on the tapes.

“What’s wrong with her?” a female dispatcher asked.

“She’s vomiting blood,” Prado said.

“OK, and why aren’t they helping her?” the dispatcher asked.

‘They’re just watching her’
“They’re watching her there and they’re not doing anything. They’re just watching her,” Prado said.

The dispatcher told Prado to contact a doctor and then said paramedics wouldn’t pick her up because she was already in a hospital. She later told him to contact county police officers at a security desk.

His wife was on the floor bleeding from the mouth for 45 minutes and instead of helping her - the emergency room workers just ignored her. The janitor was cleaning the floor around her and left here there, the 911 Operator scolded her husband for calling since they were already in the emergency room, then called security on him. The police arrived and then arrested the unconscious woman for a parole violation. She died in police custody of a perforated bowel as they were taking her away to the county lockup.

That is the way that immigrants get treated at the emergency room in America. This is the way that Republicans feel is the way to treat your kids if you can't afford healthcare.

Vyan