Lies, Damn Lies and Political Platforms
While perusing potential Presidential candidate Howard Dean’s website, I stumbled across this promise:
...we'll give a leg up to working families struggling to afford health insurance. Adults earning up to 185% of the poverty level -- $16,613 -- will be eligible for coverage through the already existing Children [sic] Health Insurance Program.
Using my superlative math skills, this puts the poverty level at $8,980.
Further research into this matter led me to this site from which I gleaned that the Department of Health and Human Services agrees with Dean that the “poverty guideline” is indeed $8,980, but only for a family of (1).
Now, I’m not one to nitpick, but how in the hell could a family of (1) adult be eligible for anything called the Children's Health Insurance Program?
Is this an outright lie? Maybe...but it's misleading at the very least. Perhaps you should ask Howard for a clarification.
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