SCHIP Bill Good or Bad – It’s all in the Timing
Everybody would agree that children should be entitled to the best available health care that we can provide and the SCHIP Bill aims to do so. It also allows the equal treatment of both legal residents and illegal ones to get the same amount of care. Americans agree that reforms to the health care system is indeed in order but the new bill does raise a lot of tantalizing but controversial questions.
One being, it does provide equality and the best care for all children but considering the rising numbers of illegal immigrants who are living within the United States, should the taxpayer shoulder the cost of their care? Many would agree that these people should be sent home for if not, they would continue to cause the population to swell simply because the children they have have equal access to health care as any American does. There are also questions regarding the income bracketing or grouping caps which are quite vague in the new bill. Americans need care and so do the children of immigrants, but there should be better definitions of the boundaries of such moves which gets care to those who need it most and deserve it. Many questions remain unanswered regarding the reforms that were seemingly too vague and precise than should have been but timing was of the essence and the health care system was indeed badly in need of reform or else more and more Americans face uncertain futures.