05-10-2018, 12:44 PM
(05-10-2018, 12:20 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Why are people lamenting the end of CHIP? According to the OP's article, "Almost half of the proposed cuts would come from two accounts within the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that White House officials said expired last year or are not expected to be drawn upon. "
It's 2 accounts from within CHIP, not all of chip AND supposedly, the accounts are expired or are not expected to be drawn up.
Be critical of whatever spending cuts are propsed all you want, but at least be critical of what they're PROPOSING.
"We're going to make some cuts to CHIP" "OMG! THEY'RE GETTING RID OF CHIP!!!"
This is why I have been saying cuts to CHIP, and not ending CHIP. But if these funds/accounts are expired, how are they cuts at all?
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
