Irresponsible CHIP Veto Gaining Attention
Bush's veto of the proposed $35 million increase to the State Children's Health Insurance Program, an increase that would be used to subsidize health care for more low-income families and keep 6.6 million children insured, is catching a lot of flack. Families USA, a health care consumer's group, has recently launched a campaign to sway the hearts of any fence-sitting Republicans. Their ad, featuring kids to be affected by the bill, is being aired on major television stations.
It's excruciating that the President's Iraq War Funding request would spend more in two weeks than this bill would spend on insuring children for an entire year.
Funny how we can waste a fortune on sending Americans to their death but not a comparably measly amount on taking care of their health. It just goes to show how warped this warmongering buffoon really is. Yeah, veto state funding for potentially groundbreaking stem cell research and health coverage for working-class people's children and anything else remotely resembling social responsibility, but full-speed ahead on the hopeless deathtrap in the Middle East.
I don't give a damn whether a few families jump ship from private insurance to state coverage. Hell, they probably needed a break anyway. The fact is that if Congress doesn't override this deathwish from King George, half a million kids will lose health insurance.
(Source: Families USA)
It's excruciating that the President's Iraq War Funding request would spend more in two weeks than this bill would spend on insuring children for an entire year.
Funny how we can waste a fortune on sending Americans to their death but not a comparably measly amount on taking care of their health. It just goes to show how warped this warmongering buffoon really is. Yeah, veto state funding for potentially groundbreaking stem cell research and health coverage for working-class people's children and anything else remotely resembling social responsibility, but full-speed ahead on the hopeless deathtrap in the Middle East.
I don't give a damn whether a few families jump ship from private insurance to state coverage. Hell, they probably needed a break anyway. The fact is that if Congress doesn't override this deathwish from King George, half a million kids will lose health insurance.
(Source: Families USA)
