[lbo-talk] Illinois as model for Democratic agenda

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At 07:18 PM 2/13/2006, Doug Henwood wrote:
>jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
>>I have no children nor do about 40% of the couples I know. All I see in 
>>this program is that someone making
>>$60,000 in Illinois gets their kid insured for a fraction of what it costs me
>
>It's a great thing to insure poor kids, don't get me wrong, but kids are a 
>great risk from an insurance POV. They rarely get sick, and when they do, 
>it's usually minor. Grownups get seriously and expensively sick. But 
>there's a lot of political points to be earned by insuring kids - they're 
>innocent and all that.
>
>Doug

 From an epidemological POV, though, isn't it about preventative medicine? 
If you take care of kids when they are young, they are less likely to be 
denied the treatment they need for the relatively minor things they need 
and, thus, have fewer health problems as adults.

And, of course, kids shouldn't be blamed for being born to their loser 
parents who aren't smart enough to find jobs with insurance an' all that.

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