SCHIP Expansion Uses Smoke Screen - by John Dale Dunn MD JD - Letters to the Editor
SCHIP Expansion Uses Smoke Screen
Letter to the editor: The Washington Post
Written By: John Dale Dunn MD JD
Published In: Letters to the Editor > August 2007
Publication date:
08/14/2007
Publisher: The Heartland Institute
SCHIP expansion is known by Washington insiders as a blatant effort to incrementally introduce Hillary Care (“A Useful Health Debate,” July 29). Its strategic success is founded on the deceptive argument that “it’s for the kids and tobacco will pay for it.”
This expansion is not about kids, and tobacco will not pay for the cost. It will just make a down payment on a very big mortgage.
John Dale Dunn MD JD (jddmdjd@web-access.net) is an emergency physician and policy advisor to The Heartland Institute, a national nonprofit research and education organization.
