With all the hoopla surrounding the president's recent veto of legislation that would have extended and expanded funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), the Insurgency finds it prudent to weigh in.

SCHIP was established to address the growing number of uninsured children in America by providing  health insurance to families who cannot afford insurance, but make a bit too much money to qualify for Medicaid.  Many Republicans voted against renewed funding for SCHIP and Bush made good on his threat to veto the legislation. 

He may have a point.

What have any of these children done to prove they deserve health insurance?  Of course, parents want their children to be insured, and kids likely want to get better when they fall ill, but what have they done to demonstrate their worthiness of a government handout?  The Insurgency has a proposal that will tackle this issue and just possibly save Lou Dobbs from a life threatening aneurism.

There are an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country,  and the primary reason they come here is because  there is work for them to do.  This is where the SCHIP kids come in.  Children who benefit from the SCHIP program should be required to work off the health insurance handout they receive from the government by performing jobs typically done by "illegals", thereby reducing market demand for immigrant labor. 

Each state will have to set its own guidelines with respect to how many days children attend school, versus how many days they work as caregivers, landscapers, crop pickers etc...  And before the NEA cries foul, they would do well to remember that sick children rarely attend school anyway.  

Under our proposal, those children could finally earn their good health, and save America from the great Dobbsian nightmare our nation continues to suffer.