Dems Should Pick Another SCHIP Poster Child (Updates)

The other day I wrote about “Why SCHIP Enlargement Is Winning.” Congressmen and Senators friendly toward government entitlement programs, and even many who are critical, are eager to be re-elected. Most Americans are living in higher than average expense coastal and urban areas, and feeling pinched. State policies usually cause much of this cost-of-living burden, as does keeping up with the Joneses. The entitlement mentality is now the norm.

A poster to Free Republic put up the apparent assets of the parents of the Democrats’ poster child for expanding the SCHIP program, for supposedly poor children and families:
· Costly private school for children;
· 3000+ square foot house, with equity of about $300,000+;
· Own a business building worth several hundred thousand dollars
But the family claims an income of about $45,000 a year.

The family lives in Maryland. According to the official Maryland web site for its SCHIP program version, Maryland Childrens Health Care, there is no asset test for participation in SCHIP.

All aboard the dole train(-wreck)

UPDATE:
Kim Priestap has more, including a telling prediction of our doleful fate.

UPDATE II:
Here's the California application form for its SCHIP program. There is no asset test.

If you check your state's government website, you'll probably find the same.

Thus, applicants are not required to use assets toward self-support.
Sweet deal, at taxpayers expense.