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Bush Did Veto Child Health Care Plan

Posted by: From Arkansas in News And More Stuff, Odds And Ends, Political News on Oct 04 2007

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Yesterday, President Bush veto’d the bill allowing for more children to be given health care insurance. However, he is causing a real problem in doing so because so many people want this bill to go through. What they are not seeing is that the bill allowed for people with money to pay for their children’s health care to be included thus costing more money for the government when, in fact, it should only be covering those children who’s parents and guardians cannot afford to get the insurance for those children.

I believe that he did the right thing. There can be a better way when the bill only includes those who cannot afford insurance in any other form. This is Mr. Bush’s fourth veto only since taking office. This is a joint state-federal bill that would subsidize the health coverage for more than 6 million people, most of them children, for families that do not qualify for medicaid but do not have enough funds to pay for private coverage. The problem is that this bill has too many holes in it and some folks would qualify that really would not need it.

Mr. Bush says that this particular bill will bring on socialized medicine because it was bringing in higher income families. The bill costs too much, it would bring people from the private insurance into the government program and does seem to track away from the original intent of helping the poor. With that in mind, I do support Mr. Bush on this and hope that the congress gets a major clue about it and does the right thing. Oh oh. Look who I’m asking to do the right thing. Sigh.

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