Let Them Eat SCHIPs

Nobody likes to read boring stories, which is why most of us skip articles about healthcare policy. Unless, of course, they have to do with children, especially sick children.

And so the avalanche of recent news articles and blog posts about the current fight between Congress, the Adminstration and various states of the Union over the State Children's Health Insurance Program have made for riveting reading.

That's because paying for kids' medical bills is something that many folks know about from deep personal experience.

Check out Bill Scher's roundup of editorials on SCHIP at Common Sense. (Hat tip to Larry Hollon, who hinted at his own tale of woe on kids' medical bills in Perspectives.)

See also Marilou Johanek in the Toledo Blade and the back and forth between the editors of the Wall Street Journal (subscribers only) and the critical reply by folks at the American Association of Retired Persons and the American Medical Association (important enough to look up at the library).

Somewhere Molly Ivins, rabble-rouser extraordinaire, is rooting.