Democrats just have no shame, you know it?

Today they put a 12-year-old boy on the radio to read their response to President Bush's weekly address.

You can read the whole transcript here (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298593,00.html), but I have my own response to this child's response.

"We got the help we needed because we had health insurance for us through the CHIP program. But there are millions of kids out there who don't have CHIP, and they wouldn't get the care that my sister and I did if they got hurt."

Forgive me, but it’s not a new thing to have major medical bills after an accident. What used to happen is that communities would band together to help the family. They set up charity accounts at the local bank, the news media comes out to interview them, and many people step forward to take care of the financial need. In accident cases like yours, doctors don’t wait to perform needed surgeries. They work out the money problems later.

This bill is not about catastrophic bills brought on by accidents and such. It's about spending gobs of taxpayers' money for routine medical expenses of people who ought to be able to get some private health insurance on their own.

"I don't know why President Bush wants to stop kids who really need help from getting CHIP. All I know is I have some really good doctors. They took great care of me when I was sick, and I'm glad I could see them because of the Children's Health Program."
The thing is, you're much too young to understand what happens next if Democrats get what they want. It may seem like you want something very simple, but it only seems that way. Did you know the Democrats’ bill expands the definition of “child” all the way to age 25? The President doesn’t want to stop kids from getting help. It’s just that it comes down to money, my young friend. The federal government doesn’t have the money to “help” everyone. You have no concept of what happens next when government-funded health insurance is “given” to more people, especially those who are neither poor nor children.

You could read more about the problems with SCHIP here: http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11753. Thinking required. Here's a quote:

"Strategically, it would seem that the Democrats are trying to achieve universal, government-run health insurance by making more and more Americans 'children.' The thinking seems to be that if government covers enough young adults and the children of enough people high up the income ladder, then eventually enough of the public will be supportive of extending such government insurance to everyone. Call it 'socialized medicine on the installment plan.'"