NC Says No To SCHIP

Article By Writer Michael Kraft Author: Michael Kraft
Published: September 26, 2007
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NC Says No To SCHIP?
Well, for the most part yes.

With insane taxes to be attached to cigarettes and open back doors for illegal immigrants in a state overrun with them, North Carolina lawmakers in Washington said no to the SCHIP program of socialized healthcare.

From MSNBC.com

“Also voting against the bill were eight Democrats, including tobacco state Democrats such as Reps. Mike McIntyre and Bob Etheridge, both from North Carolina. The bill would pay for expanding insurance coverage by imposing a 61-cent increase in the 39-cent per pack federal cigarette tax, which amounts to a 156 percent tax increase”

What Blunt and Bush object to is the expansion of CHIP to families that are middle income, or 300 percent of the federal poverty level.

For a family of four, 300 percent of the poverty level would be $61,842.

Yes to SCHIP From NCG.K. Butterfield, Brad Miller, David Price, Heath Shuler, Melvin Watt

NO to SCHIP
Howard Coble, Bob Etheridge, Virginia Foxx, Robin Hayes, Walter Jones, Patrick McHenry, Mike McIntyre, Sue Myrick

North Carolina lawmakers say no to SCHIP and socialized health care