Re: Powerful BMJ article
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Sat Oct 13 15:57:24 2007
John Stossel suggests there may be a bigger picture.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=3580676&page=1
Art
At Sat, 13 Oct 2007, RModugno@aol.com wrote:
>
>BMJ 2007;335:749 (13 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.39360.488576.59
>Observations
>Atlantic crossing
>The US muddle over a child's right to health care
>
>Uwe E Reinhardt, James Madison professor of political economy
>
>Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
>
>_reinhard@princeton.edu_ (mailto:reinhard@princeton.edu)
>Up to eight million children of poor American families are without health
> care?
>After the demise of President Bill Clinton's health reform plan in 1994, I
>posed for readers of JAMA (1997;278:1446-7) this question: "As a matter of
>
>the
>child of a rich American family?"
>That question has long been answered in the affirmative in most other
>veral
>them
>nt
>propagandistic use of children." Only one letter, penned by Richard A
> head on,
>with a resounding "no." He argued: "His [Reinhardt's] proposal for equal
>treatment perversely requires more care to children of poor parents than to
>void
>" Not
>one letter answered my question in the affirmative.
>Unlike citizens of other nations, Americans have never been able to decide
>
>f
>re
>”albeit
>ous
>neglect of either children or animals. Unable to settle that question,
>MA.
>These issues come to mind on the day President George W Bush has vetoed a
>
>Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) (News in Brief doi:
>548715.DB) ). That programme
>is administered and partially funded by the states, although the federal
>at
>d
>mes above
>133% of the federal poverty line, the threshold for coverage by the Medic id
>as
>had an important role in reducing the number of uninsured children in
> eight
>ned
>t
>the time of a survey (the higher figure).
>t
>it would be extended for another five years. The political battle has been
>ext
>half decade.
>Congress, controlled by the Democrats, had sent the president a bill
> next five
>f the
>existing programme. This would allow the states to expand the programme to
> in
>
>is $2.9 trillion; the budget request for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for
>the same year is $190bn.
>r
>
>ld
>come first," the president would require states to enrol at least 95% of
>children in families living below 200% of the federal poverty line before
>0%
>eet. Finally,
>
>not the federal government running the healthcare system."
>y
>e
>y
>counts on the number of children actually without health insurance
>camouflages much deeper and chronic ideological divisions.
>
>”and
> on the
>re
>ldren in
>their society, from conception through to adulthood, let alone on their
>—through
>the ideological muddle of the nation's adults.
>**
>*******************************************************************
>Robert Modugno MD MBA FACOG=20
>Sylva, NC
--
art fougner, md
"May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton
