So- Tell me how anyone can claim to be "Pro-Life" and support THESE cuts?

[w8liftinglady]

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/medicaid/154801-gop-budget-bill-slashes-chip-program

GOP budget bill slashes CHIP program
By Mike Lillis - 04/08/11 07:58 AM ET

The 2012 budget proposal released by House Republicans this week would slash funding for a popular children's healthcare program, leaving children's welfare advocates wondering where millions of low-income enrollees would turn for care.

The GOP's 85-page budget blueprint doesn't mention the Children's Health Insurance Program, but CHIP would lose tens of billions of dollars under the proposal, which was unveiled Tuesday by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

While the Democrats' new healthcare reform law extended CHIP through 2019 — and expanded funding through 2015 — the Ryan budget blueprint would repeal most of the that law, including the CHIP language, according to Ryan spokesman Stephen Spruiell.

Ryan's proposal would also cut Medicaid by $771 billion over the next decade.

CHIP, which provides health coverage to low-income youth ineligible for Medicaid, currently covers almost 8 million children. Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus, a children's welfare group, said the Ryan budget "would fundamentally threaten the well-being" of those youth.

[Drale]

1. Once they are out of the womb

they could careless what happens to them. Once they are born, they just cost money.

[w8liftinglady]

2. and these cuts

http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/04/07/2341509/editorial-rep-ryans-plan-to-revamp.html


EDITORIAL: Rep. Ryan's plan to revamp, cut Medicare unfairly targets elderly
Though Medicare requires cost control, Ryan's proposal is too radical.
Posted at 12:00 AM on Friday, Apr. 08, 2011Share
Budget experts gave high marks for courage and low marks for the details in a bold Republican plan offered Tuesday to slash government spending by about $6 trillion over 10 years while overhauling costly medical programs for the elderly and poor.

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., widely touted as an "honest, deeply serious thinker," has offered his blueprint for America. Unfortunately, his plan takes a hard whack at health care for the elderly -- shifting costs to individuals and the states.

It is worth remembering that before 1965, nearly half of the elderly people in this country had no health insurance. The problem was how to provide insurance against high medical costs in old age after people completed their working years and had less income. Medicare, which passed in 1965, effectively resolved that issue for our grandparents.

But Ryan's plan, embraced by House Republicans, tries to roll back the clock.

Under his proposal, which he borrowed from former California Rep. Bill Thomas' dead-on-arrival 1999 idea, the elderly no longer would receive the traditional Medicare card, with choice of doctors. Instead, older folks would get a voucher to help buy a health insurance policy. Payments would go to private insurers, not directly to hospitals and doctors, as occurs under traditional Medicare.

The Congressional Budget Office analysis said that most elderly people "would bear a much larger share of their health care costs than they would under the current program." Not surprisingly, to avoid squawking from people most strongly attached to Medicare, Ryan would allow individuals 55 and older to keep traditional Medicare.

Ryan assumes those folks will not fight for their children and grandchildren born after 1956. We hope he's wrong.



Read more: http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/04/07/2341509/editorial-rep-ryans-plan-to-revamp.html#ixzz1IyN28Iu2

[liberal N proud]

3. Those who call them selves Pro-Life are not

Post birth, the baby and the mother are on their own according to the republicans.

The same pro-birth crazies are also pro-war, go figure.

[WVRICK13]

4. They Are Pro-Fetus But They Hate Children

after they are born. They refuse to let them be aborted but have no problem with cutting insurances, education, food stamps, heat and social services. The more desperate the public becomes the more jobs they will take at substandard wages and the easier it becomes for the corporations to abuse them.