Health Decay Blogging Rules

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The promised veto...

The first faces of poverty to focus on are the faces of 9.7 million children nationwide. On October 4, 2007, infamous President George W. Bush fulfilled his promise of vetoing Healthy Kids Act of 2007. This act reinstates funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program that currently covers 6 million children and would increase coverage to 3-4 million more children. Congress planned on adding $35 billion dollars from tobacco tax increases. However, Bush only wanted to increase the program by a total of $5 billion dollars. I suspect that the tobacco company's lobbyists were working fulltime prior to the veto. Self interest has priority over the health of children per the Bush administration Bush attempted to justify his veto by claiming that such an increase in funding would make middle class families eligible for the coverage. Currently only low income families are eligible. Bush believes that middle class family’s children are not entitled to health services offered by the government. Bush is oblivious to the fact that insurance is not affordable for low income and middle class families. However Bush's primary motivation of neglecting the health of children is that it leads to federalization of health care. A discussion of Bush's fear of federalization will follow in a future blog.
News Update:
-- The U.S. House passed an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Thursday evening, despite a new veto threat and continued opposition from many Republican representatives.
House lawmakers voted 265-142 to approve the new plan, known as SCHIP.


I can only wonder what will be Bush's next excuse of his next veto on the State Children's Health Insurance Program...