Fox & Friends are deeply concerned with poor and underprivileged
at-risk children.
On the August 21 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy claimed "a brand new federal program" would spend $224 million to send "government home inspectors to your house" to help at-risk children, and asked if this was "Obamacare trumping your right to privacy and snooping on you and your family." Fox Business' Stuart Varney agreed that it was "an intrusion directly into your home and the way you raise your children," and the two proceeded to claim that "the Obama snooper" would visit families randomly and unannounced. On-screen text described the program as "Nanny state solutions: Forced home visits for 'at-risk' kids."
Oh, no they're not. They're making up another Obamacare lie. Here's the
real program which isn't even "brand new," having been announced in 2011.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius [...] announced $224 million to help at-risk families voluntarily receive home visits from nurses and social workers to improve maternal and child health, child development, school readiness, economic self-sufficiency, and child abuse prevention. As part of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program, these grants are funded by the Affordable Care Act and are awarded to state agencies that applied for the grants in 49 states across the country.
V.O.L.U.N.T.A.R.Y. Which means, roughly, you the parent gets to decide if "government inspectors" (nurses and social workers) can "intrude" (be invited) into your home to "snoop" on your family (
provide services like "educating parents about child development and supporting school readiness, linking low-income mothers to prenatal health care, ensuring children have access to health care and immunizations, helping families access supplemental food programs and financial aid, and encouraging healthy parent-child relationships to reduce incidents of child abuse").
None of which will stop Fox from lying about the program, no more than it will stop Republicans from picking it up as the next big Obamacare lie. Because they care so much about the children, too.