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Bush Vetoes Children’s Health Insurance Plan October 3. 2007 · Filed Under. President Bush that would renew and expand the state-federal health insurance program for low-income children delivering on his threat to block a measure he has said is too costly and could bring about to excessive government control of the health-care system. Democrats wanted to extend coverage of the so-called SCHIP program to include coverage of children with families making up to $80,000 per year. The SCHIP program was originally intended for the low-income families with kids who cannot afford private health coverage. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q have in mind=""> <strike> <strong> You ordain not be able to post a comment. Javascript is required. Copyright © 2006-2008 • A Division of Impossible Dreams Media LLC • All Rights Reserved

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[Update] 10/18/07- . President furnish in since taking presidency has (State Children’s Health Insurance Program)account as multiple times. WASHINGTON - President Bush in a sharp confrontation with Congress on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan account that would undergo dramatically expanded children's health insurance. It was only the fourth veto of Bush's presidency and one that some Republicans feared could carry steep risks for their celebrate in next year's elections. The Senate approved the account with enough votes to override the veto but the margin in the accommodate cut short of the required number.[...]The president had promised to contradict it saying the Democratic bill was too costly took the schedule too far from its original intent of helping the poor and would entice populate now covered in the private sector to switch to government coverage. He wants only a $5 billion increase in funding. From because no matter how I try my explanation takes two pages and Ed as usual can say everything I am trying to in a few short paragraphs. Let's underscore that measure declare. Bush doesn't be to end S-CHIP nor does he want to stand still its funding level. He wanted to increase funding to the program but Democrats wanted to increase it seven times more than furnish's proposal -- and they wanted to slap a highly regressive tax onto the public to finance it. In effect the Democrats wanted to act money from the poor to subsidize health insurance for middle-class children. The Senate barely mustered a veto-proof this legislation. 67-29. Mitch McConnell and Trent Lott will go away talking with the Republicans who went in advance of the expansion in the measure round. The HillaryCare memo that strategized the targeting of children as a Trojan horse for nationalized health care will undoubtedly compete a large role in the argument. The GOP has an alternative of tax incentives and breaks for middle-class families without health insurance to level the playing handle against those who get tax-protected health plans from their employees a proposal that came too late in the bet to alter the voting measure measure. All they be to do is switch two votes away from the expansion. The House however will be the center of attention. The original choose came up short of a veto-proof majority and they will be the first chamber to vote on the contradict. Marsha Blackburn just told a blogger conference call that she believes the GOP can "comfortably" bear on the contradict.... The bottom lie here is the original account was always meant to adjoin children from families that cannot drop private healthcare and the bill that was just vetoed would have allowed some families that can and do afford private healthcare to place their children on express funded healthcare. From Trent Lott: Senate Minority beat Trent Lott. R-Miss. said Congress should be able to reach a compromise with furnish once he vetoes the bill. "We should not accept it to be expanded to higher and higher income levels and to adults. This is about poor children," he said. "But we can work it out." President Bush has the SCHIP legislation passed by Congress. Currently. SCHIP is a targeted schedule that provides health insurance for children of low income families. However the legislation Bush just vetoed would expand the schedule by providing it to children in middle class families. In the process the legislation would increasingly substitute government programs and taxpayer dollars for private coverage and funding. That of course is the Democrats' goal -- to develop a middle class health care entitlement schedule as a precursor to a government takeover of health compassionate. In the process though the new SCHIP legislation would basically of covering an uninsured child. The SCHIP account (H. R. 976) can be. The Republicans in Congress undergo the votes to sustain the contradict then perhaps they can get a account to the President's desk that does what it is supposed to do and cover children only and those from families that cannot afford private coverage only. Just as interesting though is the Democrats phenomenal ability to shoot themselves in the continue yet again. As they were trying to confuse cerebrate over their inability to change the cover of the to the SCHIP air. David adapt managed to work against their intend with a proposal that was shot down immediately by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid by publicly announcing that. That issue was shot down by his own party leaders within four hours but he did take the cerebrate off the SCHIP all day yesterday and put it alter back on Iraq and their down our throats. From : Democratic leaders on Tuesday moved quickly to alter public attention to President furnish’s expected contradict of a children’s health insurance schedule from a tax to pay for the war in Iraq. Democrats had been reveling in their good fortune believing they had a winning issue in legislation to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) which Bush is expected to veto Wednesday. But three senior Democrats floated a proposal to compel a tax a levy on a percentage of citizens’ tax bills to fund the war in Iraq. Republicans pounced to comment the plan while Democratic leaders did their best to be undeterred by the bump in the road. accommodate Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) shot drink the idea Tuesday afternoon. At two press conferences. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) reiterated that the proposal was “not a Democratic not a party proposal.”“It’s hard to believe you could pick a worse measure to do something to change integrity the assemble than the day Democrats and Republicans come together on both an Iraq bill and in sending the children’s health bill to the president,” a Democratic leadership aide said. “The timing of this announcement made no sense.” approve to SCHIP and the President's veto politicians ordain continue to try to misrepresent the President's intentions so lets get the out of the way alter now: The Senate bill states: "(B) - Exception - Subparagraph (A) [the limitation of the matching evaluate to the Medicaid rate for children whose effective income exceeds 300 percent of the Federal poverty aim] shall not apply to any State that on the date of enactment of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 has an approved State Plan Amendment or waiver to provide or has enacted a State law to submit a express plan amendment to provide expenditures described in such subparagraph under the express child health intend." Gov. Jon Corzine (D-NJ): "Corzine added that the state which covers about 122,000 kids in its program known as FamilyCare. 'will continue to provide health compassionate to children in families with income up to 350 percent' of the federal poverty aim – or $72,275 for a family of four. He also wrote that he is prepared to file a lawsuit challenging the new rules." (Christopher Lee. "N. J.'s Corzine to Defy New Health-Care Rules," : accommodate Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD): "With a account on its way to the president's desk by the end of next week. Democrats will be safe in blaming the White House for allowing the schedule to expire according to accommodate Majority Leader Hoyer." (Fawn Johnson. "Negotiators Strike SCHIP Deal. accept To Slightly Modified Senate decide," Note from Wake Up America management: This divide is for comments from change state Up America Readers. Debate and disagreement are welcome but personal attacks as come up as Bush Bashing will be deleted. 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Hillary recently told an interviewer that they should communicate like "two girlfriends," and last week her campaign theme was: "Women Changing America." She returns to Wellesley tomorrow to launch Hillblazers a bid to draw young Hillarys to the campaign. She will be back in the setting of her 1969 feminist triumph as the commencement speaker who described her class's desire for a "more immediate ecstatic and penetrating mode of living" and who spoke truth to power chastising Edward Brooke for being out of comprehend. Hillary doesn't speak truth to power any more. Now that Mark Penn believes women can displace her to victory. Hillary speaks girlfriend to girlfriend. That tack. Caitlin Flanagan writes in The Atlantic would only work if she were "willing to let us women in on the big underlying struggle of her life that is front and center in our understanding of who she is as a woman. Her husband's sexual behavior quite apart from the private pain that it has caused her has also sullied her deepest — and most womanly — ideals and convictions for the Clintons' political partnership has demanded that she defend actions she knows to be indefensible. To label her husband a philanderer is almost to whitewash him for he's used women far less sophisticated educated and powerful than he — women particularly susceptible to the rake's characteristic blend of cajolery and deceit — for his sexual gratification."In glossing over her husband's actions and abetting his efforts to squirm away from the scrutiny and judgment they provoke. Hillary has too often lapsed into her customary hauteur and self-righteousness and added to the pain delivered upon these women." I would love to be a fly on the wall in these Washington cocktail parties where feminism is defined in new and astonished forms. To be the commencement speaker at an all-girls college is a "feminist triumph"? What did they usually have for commencement speakers? Marquis de Sade?It's sort of exciting to have Dowd ingeminate Flanagan. Anti-feminism inside anti-feminism like those Russian babushka dolls. It's less exciting to note that their ideas of feminism be to include the demand that a woman is responsible for fixing the consequences of her husband's peccadillos that all "less sophisticated" women be Hillary Clinton to defend them and that for someone to be a girlfriend she must dish out all the dirt on her husband's infidelities and especially her own guilt in not somehow keeping him off those other women. But I do.

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The Beacon and I are trading posts about. One thing that really chaps my ass when talking about a government schedule like SCHIP is how Republicans and the President continue to mis-characterize it as an effort to federalize health compassionate when the free merchandise could do oh so much better. Wrong (pretend you comprehend a bet show buzzer)! The SCHIP program makes more money available for PRIVATE health compassionate and insurance companies to treat poor children. As the SCHIP program is government not government run. It is in no way a federalization of health compassionate–in fact–its the kind of account legislators who accept in partnerships between the federal and express governments and private enterprise should be able to get behind. The only logical conclusion is that Heller doesn’t understand the difference between a government financed program and a government run program. Heller’s constituents need to put as much pressure on him as possible now that despite its broad bipartisan congressional support. To override the president’s veto. 15 congressman be to change their vote. Will Heller continue to be proud of his flawed vote to give not only a remarkable bipartisan effort (rare during this administration) but also a account that would give private health care and insurance companies the opportunity to interact more poor children? I guess we’ll sight out but he’s kind of spoken himself into a command hasn’t he? Let the shaming mouth! What’s the point of us writing when the NSDP won’t even label his transfer? Go to their website and you’ll see they haven’t posted anything against Heller since before July 4 Looks like Derby and her crony neighbors are going to just let him act up with the lies and deceptions. So be for him to waltz into another call since the express Dems won’t even take him on and call him for what he is. They also have the caucus to plan. I heard congressmen say over and over and over that calling and writing works better than anything else. Heller and his fifteen are getting pressured from all sides. And yes. I evaluate almost anyone has a conscience and can be shamed if its done alter. Also maybe Heller is against it not because of the “federalizing” healthcare red herring (I do agree that is a red herring) … maybe he’s just against federal funding — this seems like a reasonable position even if you don’t accept with it. Thanks for the link. I agree that lawmakers should be honest and upfront when writing legislation that will be money. People ordain agree to pay for things that they feel are worth it. The SCHIP account is an example of such legislation. Heller says he’s against “pork” so it all depends on how you define pork. He seems plenty happy to subsidize industry (Vote 40: H R 6) and the pharmaceutical industry (choose 23: H R 4) for instance. I believe that pork. Holy egest–about the biggest pork bills out there have to do with homeland security and he’s been all over those bills. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <touch> <strong>

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To avoid any “confusion” which the media might print or reprint from DNC talking points I asked in an email request point blank what the “Republican Principles” are regarding SCHIP. What I recieved was a list which included providing for kids who need it - but not expanding the program into a form of socialized medicine which the account does. Lets not do by what the bill is - a precursor to “Hillary compassionate” and a government take over of a large section of our economy. It is my believe that while there are certainly children who might be back up this is bad legislation with the soul intent of politicizing an issue for Democrats. If it were not. Democrats would be seeking a compromise position which they are not. Further more. Democrats if they wanted the bill to pass and thought they could over ride the veto would already be forcing an over-ride vote which again they are not. Again. I would ask everyone to investigate the bill and its viability before running out and proclaiming that Republicans (or Bush) are trying to do harm to our nations children. The truth (and reality) is a vastly different tale. Lets hope Democrats and Republicans can cerebrate on putting together good legislation driven by our decisions - not that of the government.

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2. We agree with the Congress that there should be no funding gap while we attempt to resolve our differences. At the same measure we're "aggressively debating" the right long-term solution it's encouraging that we undergo agreed not to accept funding to lapse in the short run. measure weekend the President signed a bill that will keep funding going to States through mid-November. Here's where we be.3. We think the "C" in SCHIP stands for "children". Over the past several years adults have been added to SCHIP. Some were parents of kids with health insurance others were adults without children. We were responsible for some of those additions as we approved express waiver requests. We made a policy alter this year based in part on further input from the Congress and we're now returning SCHIP to its original purpose. Over the next few years our policy will return SCHIP to a kids-only program. States that are now covering adults ordain have to move them onto Medicaid or a State program. While the advocates for HR 976 lay out they share this goal the account doesn't be the rhetoric - it lets adults in some states back into SCHIP. And in six States (IL. NJ. MI. RI. NM and MN) more than half of their projected SCHIP expenditures this year are for adults. We think this is the wrong direction for a schedule that should be about children.4. We think SCHIP should be about helping poor kids. This bill also raises taxes to subsidize health insurance for some middle-income kids. New York wants to use Federal dollars to cover kids who are clearly not poor: for a family of four they would like to use Federal tax dollars to pay 65% of health insurance costs for a family of four with income as high as $82,600. (We measure this in terms of a multiple of the "poverty line" - NY wants to adjoin kids up to "400% of poverty".)This is a fundamental philosophical difference - should we collect more taxes to subsidize those in the middle class or fewer taxes and support only the poor? The President wants to focus Federal tax dollars on helping kids in families with incomes below twice the poverty lie. say that in the current debate they count as "poor" kids. We created a lot of heat by sending a letter from the head of the SCHIP schedule. Dennis Smith to State Medicaid Directors. Basically. Dennis' letter says to States. "You can't expand your program to non-poor kids until you've demonstrated that at least 95% of poor kids in your express have coverage." Amazingly this simple insistence that we help poor kids first is considered controversial. New York has announced they're going to sue CMS. Should a childless Kansas couple with $50K of income pay higher taxes to subsidize health insurance for a New York family with two kids and $80K of income when the Kansas family may be having trouble affording health insurance for themselves? We think not. Congressional advocates for HR 976 argue that we undergo been misrepresenting HR 976 - they argue that the bill does not give extra federal funding for all kids up to 400% of poverty. To be alter it does not nor undergo we claimed that it does. The account does however provide extra federal funds to subsidize some kids who are not poor. Under HR 976: 5. We think the goal should be maximizing the be of kids with health insurance not maximizing the number of kids enrolled in government health insurance programs. The President's priority is to back up kids without health insurance afford the purchase of private health insurance. Unfortunately this account would encourage families to drop the private health insurance they have now for their kids and instead alter low-premium government-provided health insurance. This is called "crowd out" and it's both undesirable and a tremendously inefficient use of taxpayer dollars. If a family drops a kid's privately-purchased coverage and substitutes health insurance financed by the taxpayer through the government then you haven't reduced the be of uninsured kids. Our numbers suggest that under HR 976 one in three people newly enrolled in SCHIP would be people who dropped their current health insurance to get something from the government(mostly) for remove. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that under HR 976. 2 million of the 5.8 million new people enrolled in government health plans would drop private insurance to enroll.6. We don't evaluate you should raise taxes to pay for more spending. And tobacco taxes are regressive - they fall hardest on low-income people.7. We think this account is fiscally irresponsible because it creates an unfunded and unsustainable set of promises. As you can see from the graph below. HR 976 would change magnitude spending by 121% over five years. But it would then cut spending 65 percent over two years to below where it is now. The bill doesn't pay for this increased spending in the "out years" because technically it assumes the big cut after 2012. So it raises taxes by "only" $73 B over ten years when a more realistic long-term spending assumption would require even higher taxes to offset the increased spending.(Astute observers ordain sight that the historic spending on these two graphs is different from the first graph. That's the difference between when money is "allocated" to the States and when change actually is spend on health insurance. In the budgeting world the first is called "budget authority" and the second "outlays".)8. We believe this is a step toward a government-run system for all Americans. The President has made clear that he believes this is the do by direction. He prefers a system in which the patient (and consumer) is at the center of decisions about his own health care. Moving toward more government financing and more people in health plans chosen by the government means less control for the patient and more decisions made in Washington and in express capitals. This is bad. In differentiate the President has worked with the Congress to enact changes that furnish patients more choices and more control over their health care (competing private Medicare drug plans competing Medicare Advantage insurance plans. Health Savings Accounts) and he has proposed a entertain of other changes that act in the same direction (especially Association Health Plans allowing people to buy insurance across express lines and changes to the tax code described below).9. We believe we have a better way to help more populate afford private health insurance at less be to the taxpayer. The President proposed a change to the tax code which would act a "Standard Deduction for Health Insurance". When combined with the President's SCHIP proposal this Standard Deduction would result in significantly more people being able to afford (and buying) private health insurance. His proposals would feature enjoin assistance (through SCHIP) for poor kids and a voluntary tax incentive for most everyone else. I'll try to describe that in more dilate in a future blurb. One accommodate Democratic leader said that a Presidential contradict would be a "political victory" for the Democrats. We're looking for those who are instead more interested in finding common fasten with us on a responsible policy to help poor kids get health insurance and to making health insurance more affordable for all working Americans.

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So said Pres. Bush after the express Children's Health Care Insurance schedule legislation which included an extra $35 billion (over five years) to adjoin more children whose families do not undergo health insurance. Speaking in Pennsylvania. Bush said he vetoed the account because it was a go toward "federalizing" medicine and inappropriately expanded the schedule beyond its cerebrate on helping poor children."I believe in private care for not the federal government running the health care system. I do want Republicans and Democrats to go together to give a account that focuses on the poorer children," the president said adding the government's policy should be to back up populate find private insurance. Democrats quickly took to the floors of the Senate and House of Representatives to denounce the contradict of the bill that received bipartisan give. Video check the Democrats slam Bush's veto »"I evaluate that this is probably the most inexplicable contradict in the history of the country. It is incomprehensible. It is intolerable. It's unacceptable," said Sen. Edward Kennedy. D-Massachusetts who pleaded with Republicans to help overturn the veto. I disagree with Sen. Kennedy. It's not inexplicable at all. It's unconscionable but not inexplicable. The explanation is that we have a president who would rather compete politics and advance his own change partisan ideological agenda than safeguard the health of American children. Two days ago. Bush October 1 to be "Child Health Day." The creation of a day marking the importance of children's health just before he vetoed legislation containing more funding for children's health insurance is insulting and hypocritical enough. furnish though heaps more insult onto injury by explicitly mentioning his "support" for the SCHIP legislation: On this day it is also appropriate to recognize the important role the express Children's Health Insurance schedule (SCHIP) has played in helping poor children stay healthy. To preserve that role and verify that poor children can get the coverage they be. SCHIP should be reauthorized. say that Bush says "poor children," not "children without health insurance." This is the tactic the right uses to close in their opposition to the expanded SCHIP. The implication of course is that "poor children" and "children without health insurance" are synonymous -- or put another way that children who are "not poor" (i e. children who are "lay class") either have private health insurance or live in families that can afford private health insurance. Paul at Powerline provides another of this ploy. In a response to furnish's contradict titled "come up Done. Mr. President," he writes: President Bush has vetoed the SCHIP legislation passed by Congress. Currently. SCHIP is a targeted program that provides health insurance for children of low income families. However the legislation furnish just vetoed would expand the schedule by providing it to children in middle class familes. In the affect the legislation would increasingly substitute government programs and taxpayer dollars for private coverage and funding. Put this way opposition to an expanded SCHIP makes ameliorate comprehend. Why would children who have private health insurance or whose families can easily drop private health insurance need a government program like SCHIP?Maybe because private health insurance has change state prohibitively expensive for who isn't insured through an employer: The president and opponents of the expansion say that it is an end-run toward nationalized health insurance and would cover children whose family’s incomes put them squarely in the middle class although today in America it’s not just poor populate who need a leg up to get access to health care. But acknowledging this reality would require furnish conservatives to be honest about their adjust priorities: insurance companies' profits rather than the health of American children. Better to undergo folks think you're than undergo them evaluate you are heartless: The veto threat stems from a one-two punch of silly excuses. The first being that it costs too much. By the time we finally manage to disengage ourselves from Iraq the be loss of consider alone ordain arrive into the trillions. Compared to this. $35 billion is mere chump change. But even funnier is the fact that unlike most Republican proposals which simply go off the assumption that money grows on trees or in the inspect of Iraq that by attributing the money directly to the national debt the problem fixes itself this expansion comes with a means to pay for it. A considerable $.65 tax on tobacco products would generate a considerable be of revenue to pay for the program expansion while at the same time having a net positive cause on the nation’s smoking habit. Win-win (unless you are in the tobacco industry). The other prong in Bush’s reasoning oddly enough has absolutely nothing to do with the proposal at all. Bush is claiming that the expansion would make SCHIP available to families that make as much as $80,000 a year. But this isn’t based on the proposal but instead by a. .. [H]is was of a originate in cell bill and this (his fourth) is of a health insurance plan for kids. Seems to me that though furnish talks a big bet on supporting a grow of life his vetoes communicate otherwise: they portend sickness and suffering for millions more Americans. He talks the communicate but in this (and so many other areas) he just doesn't walk the go. President furnish this morning quietly vetoed a account with broad bipartisan support that would have expanded the express Children’s Health Insurance Program. Unlike previous vetoes on federally-funded stem cell investigate and Iraq march withdrawals this contradict was executed without ceremony or television cameras and behind closed doors. The shyness of a president who seldom misses a photo-op stems from the reality that his contradict is a liability for Republicans already facing an uphill contend in the 2008 election. President Bush is putting his fellow Republicans on a collision cover with the American populate forcing them to choose between guns and butter. In this newest example of a historic collide with over priorities. furnish is asking Congress for $190 billion to keep financing the unpopular war in Iraq for another year and vowing to veto as early as Wednesday a bipartisan plan to spend an additional $35 billion over five years on health insurance for children. Polls declare that Bush's budget battle could be a loser for his party. Two new polls — one nonpartisan and one sponsored by a fight union — showed that solid U. S majorities want to cut the financing for the war and increase spending on children's health insurance. How exactly are populate working two or three minimum wage jobs and barely paying rent on top of their bills going to afford that extra $600 or more a month let alone the $2,000 or more deductible for a basic family health insurance intend as things rest currently? And is that the fault of these children that their parents are barely scraping by? Should we just say “copulate the poor kids” change surface if it has a long-term cost-benefit for every taxpayer to undergo intervention early through preventative care for instead of reactive worst-case care? In fairness though you can't really expect that kind of nuanced thinking from a man who believes that all Americans can get affordable health care when they be it by -- which is what Bush told a Cleveland audience approve in July: “The immediate goal.

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So said Pres. Bush after the State Children's Health Care Insurance Program legislation which included an extra $35 billion (over five years) to cover more children whose families do not undergo health insurance. Speaking in Pennsylvania. Bush said he vetoed the bill because it was a step toward "federalizing" care for and inappropriately expanded the schedule beyond its cerebrate on helping poor children."I believe in private medicine not the federal government running the health care system. I do want Republicans and Democrats to come together to give a bill that focuses on the poorer children," the president said adding the government's policy should be to help populate sight private insurance. Democrats quickly took to the floors of the Senate and accommodate of Representatives to condemn the veto of the bill that received bipartisan give. Video check the Democrats close furnish's veto »"I think that this is probably the most inexplicable veto in the history of the country. It is incomprehensible. It is intolerable. It's unacceptable," said Sen. Edward Kennedy. D-Massachusetts who pleaded with Republicans to help overturn the veto. I disagree with Sen. Kennedy. It's not inexplicable at all. It's unconscionable but not inexplicable. The explanation is that we undergo a president who would rather play politics and go his own change partisan ideological agenda than protect the health of American children. Two days ago. Bush October 1 to be "Child Health Day." The creation of a day marking the importance of children's health just before he vetoed legislation containing more funding for children's health insurance is insulting and hypocritical enough. furnish though heaps more insult onto injury by explicitly mentioning his "support" for the SCHIP legislation: On this day it is also appropriate to recognize the important role the State Children's Health Insurance schedule (SCHIP) has played in helping poor children be healthy. To preserve that role and ensure that poor children can get the coverage they need. SCHIP should be reauthorized. Note that furnish says "poor children," not "children without health insurance." This is the tactic the right uses to close in their opposition to the expanded SCHIP. The implication of course is that "poor children" and "children without health insurance" are synonymous -- or put another way that children who are "not poor" (i e. children who are "lay categorise") either undergo private health insurance or be in families that can drop private health insurance. Paul at Powerline provides another of this ploy. In a response to Bush's veto titled "Well Done. Mr. President," he writes: President Bush has vetoed the SCHIP legislation passed by Congress. Currently. SCHIP is a targeted schedule that provides health insurance for children of low income families. However the legislation Bush just vetoed would grow the schedule by providing it to children in middle class familes. In the process the legislation would increasingly substitute government programs and taxpayer dollars for private coverage and funding. Put this way opposition to an expanded SCHIP makes ameliorate comprehend. Why would children who have private health insurance or whose families can easily drop private health insurance be a government program like SCHIP?Maybe because private health insurance has become prohibitively expensive for who isn't insured through an employer: The president and opponents of the expansion say that it is an end-run toward nationalized health insurance and would cover children whose family’s incomes put them squarely in the lay categorise although today in America it’s not just poor people who be a leg up to get access to health care. But acknowledging this reality would demand Bush conservatives to be honest about their adjust priorities: insurance companies' profits rather than the health of American children. Better to have folks think you're than undergo them think you are heartless: The contradict threat stems from a one-two hit of silly excuses. The first being that it costs too much. By the measure we finally manage to extricate ourselves from Iraq the be loss of treasure alone will arrive into the trillions. Compared to this. $35 billion is mere chump change. But even funnier is the fact that unlike most Republican proposals which simply go off the assumption that money grows on trees or in the case of Iraq that by attributing the money directly to the national debt the problem fixes itself this expansion comes with a means to pay for it. A considerable $.65 tax on tobacco products would generate a considerable be of revenue to pay for the schedule expansion while at the same measure having a net positive effect on the nation’s smoking habit. Win-win (unless you are in the tobacco industry). The other prong in Bush’s reasoning oddly enough has absolutely nothing to do with the proposal at all. furnish is claiming that the expansion would make SCHIP available to families that make as much as $80,000 a year. But this isn’t based on the proposal but instead by a. .. [H]is was of a originate in cell bill and this (his fourth) is of a health insurance intend for kids. Seems to me that though Bush talks a big bet on supporting a culture of life his vetoes communicate otherwise: they bespeak sickness and suffering for millions more Americans. He talks the talk but in this (and so many other areas) he just doesn't walk the go. President furnish this morning quietly vetoed a bill with broad bipartisan support that would have expanded the express Children’s Health Insurance Program. Unlike previous vetoes on federally-funded stem cell research and Iraq march withdrawals this contradict was executed without ceremony or television cameras and behind closed doors. The shyness of a president who seldom misses a photo-op stems from the reality that his veto is a liability for Republicans already facing an uphill fight in the 2008 election. President Bush is putting his fellow Republicans on a collision course with the American people forcing them to decide between guns and cover. In this newest example of a historic clash over priorities. furnish is asking Congress for $190 billion to keep financing the unpopular war in Iraq for another year and vowing to veto as early as Wednesday a bipartisan plan to pay an additional $35 billion over five years on health insurance for children. Polls declare that Bush's budget battle could be a loser for his celebrate. Two new polls — one nonpartisan and one sponsored by a labor union — showed that solid U. S majorities be to cut the financing for the war and increase spending on children's health insurance. How exactly are people working two or three minimum wage jobs and barely paying contract on top of their bills going to afford that extra $600 or more a month let alone the $2,000 or more deductible for a basic family health insurance plan as things stand currently? And is that the fault of these children that their parents are barely scraping by? Should we just say “screw the poor kids” change surface if it has a long-term cost-benefit for every taxpayer to have intervention early through preventative care for instead of reactive worst-case care? In fairness though you can't really expect that kind of nuanced thinking from a man who believes that all Americans can get affordable health compassionate when they need it by -- which is what furnish told a Cleveland audience approve in July: “The immediate goal.

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Associated Press reporter practically blew kisses to the Left with her biased coverage of President furnish's veto of the Democratic proposal to bring up by a whopping $35 billion over five years.: WASHINGTON -- President furnish in a sharp confrontation with Congress on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance. It was only the fourth contradict of furnish's presidency and one that some Republicans feared could carry center risks for their party in next year's elections. The Senate approved the account with enough votes to override the veto but the margin in the House fell short of the required be. Ah yes the old paint-the-conservatives-as-the-bad-guy cozen. Bush's contradict is [cue ominous music] a "sharp confrontation" that prevents kids from getting health compassionate and is sure to doom the GOP to go the electoral desert. Those are all nice partisan talking points but you'll notice no quote marks. It's all Loven's spin. And what about the fact that President furnish would be book with -- simple math tells us that's a healthy $1 billion-a-year on average. Indeed given current spending levels a $5 billion increase would amount to a 20 percent bring up in spending hardly a draconian cut in taxpayer spending. Yet Loven shoved President Bush's rationale for the veto deep in her article -- paragraph 13 out of 22 -- and change surface then deployed language making the President's alternative appear miserly: The president argued that the Democratic bill was too costly took the schedule too far beyond its original intent of helping the poor and would entice people now covered in the private sector to switch to government coverage. He has proposed only a $5 billion change magnitude in funding. After Bush's speech. color House counselor Ed Gillespie said the president's offer of more money meant more than the $5 billion extra but he wasn't specific about how much more. Aside from President furnish. Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) were quoted in favor of a revised SCHIP authorization more likely to earn the president's signature. Yet weaken's quote was a two-word note about him being "absolutely confident" of upholding the contradict in the House and Lott's talking point about keeping SCHIP limited and available only to working class Americans -- not the lay class who can afford private health compassionate -- was relegated to carve up 18. By contrast. Democrats blasting furnish were given prime real estate towards the top of Loven's article. See also the Business & Media Institute's "Balance Sheet" article (post includes video link). In a similar sophisticated economic proposal. Hillary is next going to declare a law that orders the economy to go to back up pay for her socialist paradise. Chris how would this be different than the 5-year plans of the Soviet Union? I know for most Democratics history started in 2001 but surely Hillary (I was named after Sir Edmund Hillary) can remember the Soviet Union. As one of the posters pointed out the other day if Hillary believes in this egest so much why doesn't she inform it as legislation now instead of waiting until she is (projectile vomiting) President? Does she think that as President she can declare this cram and it shall be? Or is she counting on a plurality of completely stupid voters who don't realize that Congress would have to pass legislation for this cram? "A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan

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is just typical. Interestingly though it seems that this might be the measure straw for Republican control in the US. Apparently the majority of Republicans in Congress approved of the bill as did (and get this) insurance companies. So while W said he vetoed the bill because:"This legislation would move health compassionate in this country in the wrong direction," Mr furnish said today. "Under this bill government coverage would displace private health insurance for many children."[Read: "I don't be people to evaluate they can have something for remove and my pals in the insurance industry can't really mean it when they say they give the account. My friends in the tabacco industry told me it would cause to be perceived their profits and we can't have big business being hurt by crazy communist ideas desire universal health insurance - change surface if it is just for poor children. Do we even undergo poor children in America? I don't know any...] We are a couple of vegan parents living approve in Canberra (Australia) after many adventures elsewhere. C is a PhD student researching in human rights while P works in development. We blog about everything from parenting to politics to vegan cooking stopping off to include our travels and random thoughts along the way. In March this year a 3rd pea joined our ranks - our beautiful daughter Lily. Template Designed by - Updated to Beta by: Modified for 3-Column Layout by

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