Just when we think a president with 28% approval ratings
couldn’t get less support from the public, Bush has found
a way to reach new lows. He is threatening to veto
reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance
Program (SCHIP), a program to provide health insurance coverage
to low- and middle-income children that enjoys broad bipartisan
support. As the New Republic reports, this is not the
first time he has short-changed SCHIP.
With 9 million children in the U.S. lacking health
insurance, SCHIP reauthorization is a vital step
toward closing the coverage gap. But the Bush White House
doesn’t like the fact that some governors (both Democrat
and Republican) have expanded their programs to cover not just
kids at the poverty limit, but their working parents as well.
This is merely a reflection of how spiraling health care costs
have made insurance coverage unaffordable for millions of
working families. And that’s an Inconvenient Truth that
this SICKO administration would prefer to ignore.
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