How much can you make and still qualify for the Compromised but vetoed SCHIP Bill?

Question

I have had answers to previous SCHIP Questions claiming you could make 60,000, 61,000, 65,000, 80,000, and 81,000 Dollars. Well which is it? The first clue that someone is lying about a number is they can't keep their facts straight. Is this the case.
Please try to answer the question I have asked and not spout the lies as to why the SCHIP Bill was a bad bill. Thanks

Answer 1

Originally the concept was a number times the poverty level of $20,000. With states with higher costs of living at the max of four times poverty level, which is where the $80,000 number came in. That was to be in three states with the highest cost of living NY, Hawaii and Alaska.
Most of the states would fall into the $21,000-$40,000 level.
It was not meant to be coverage for poor kids, it was a middle class bill meant to help working parents who could no longer afford private insurance or those whose parents no longer had insurance at work.

I have to wonder at someone who could call spending all your money for the next ten years on a seriously ill child 'having your cake and eating it too'. I hope he never finds out how stupid what he thinks really is, as the toll having a seriously ill child is far more than just money.
Caring for a child ill with cancer is a far from cake as you can get and even thinking that way leads me to wonder what the hell these people are thinking.

Answer 2

States apply to the Federal government to be permitted higher levels than 200% of US poverty. Bush has already denied NY request to raise above 80K, and would not have lost that ability in the new increase. All spin.
He has also issued guidelines making it very difficult for a state to raise above 250% of Natl. poverty line in the future.

SCHIP was not intended to help the very poor - that is for medicaid and welfare.
The stated intent of Congress when it established the program in 1997 was to expand coverage beyond those who were poor to "uninsured low-income" children.

Also note that these levels are set to include working families living in expensive parts of the countries, who may still have less discretionary income due to high living expenses, although technically higher than 200% of the national poverty level.
Families are still means-tested for high cost of living before being permitted at these higher incomes. So, for example, few families of 4 earning $72K in NJ would be eligible.

SCHIP: Who's Eligible Now?
State Income Ceiling
% of Federal Poverty Level In dollars: Family of 4, 2007 Highest 3
1 New Jersey 350% $72,275
2 Hawaii* 300% $71,250
3 Connecticut 300% $61,950
4 D.C. 300% $61,950
5 Maryland 300% $61,950
6 Massachusetts 300% $61,950
7 Missouri 300% $61,950
8 New Hampshire 300% $61,950
9 Vermont 300% $61,950
10 Pennsylvania 300% $61,950
11 Minnesota 275% $56,788
12 California 250% $51,625
13 New York 250% $51,625
14 Rhode Island 250% $51,625
15 Tennessee 250% $51,625
16 Washington 250% $51,625
17 Georgia 235% $48,528
18 New Mexico 235% $48,528
19 West Virginia 220% $45,430
20 Alaska* 175% $45,185
21 Alabama 200% $41,300
22 Arizona 200% $41,300
23 Arkansas 200% $41,300
24 Colorado 200% $41,300
25 Delaware 200% $41,300
26 Florida 200% $41,300
27 Illinois 200% $41,300
28 Indiana 200% $41,300
29 Iowa 200% $41,300
30 Kansas 200% $41,300
31 Kentucky 200% $41,300
32 Louisiana 200% $41,300
33 Maine 200% $41,300
34 Michigan 200% $41,300
35 Mississippi 200% $41,300
36 Nevada 200% $41,300
37 North Carolina 200% $41,300
38 Ohio 200% $41,300
39 South Dakota 200% $41,300
40 Texas 200% $41,300
41 Utah 200% $41,300
42 Virginia 200% $41,300
43 Wyoming 200% $41,300
44 Idaho 185% $38,203
45 Nebraska 185% $38,203
46 Oklahoma 185% $38,203
47 Oregon 185% $38,203
48 Wisconsin 185% $38,203
49 Montana 150% $30,975
50 South Carolina 150% $30,975
51 North Dakota 140% $28,910

Answer 3

I heard $83,000.
But their is a lot of information taken into consideration as it relates to a persons income and obligations at the time a tragedy strikes a family .
Should income be the determining factor at all in the treatment of a child in the first place .

Ability to pay and willingness are often two different things .

What would you sacrafice to keep your child alive .

Would you pay out all your income and live in a trailer for ten years to pay the doctors who saved him or her or do you just want your cake and eat it too .

Answer 4

It's 80,000 becuase to qualify you go through a spend down process...Meaning your housing and utlility costs for the year get subtracted from your qualifying income.... So someone with 80,000 + after spend down would qualify for the program. Right now people making 40,000 can already go through the spend down process and get it. Unfortunately people don't understand the spend down process or they are too "proud to apply" So many who qualify for it at 40,000 a year now don't try to get it.

Answer 5

The amount is fixed for different regions of the country, so it could have gone as high as $85,000.000.
But the Communist Bush Vetoed it.