Thirteen votes were missing to override President Bush's veto on the Schip bill today. No republicans changed there mind, but six democrats switched from "no" to yes. One of the main arguments that the Republicans made was that the 35 billion intended for the bill could cover illegal immigrant children and middle class families. The Democrats heard this argument and since the bill's veto are planning on revising the bill and making tighter restrictions. The bill is going to be back on the President's desk right before the election in 2008
President Bush seems to want to be financially responsible (probably because of all the mishaps in his current administration), but vetoing a bill to help millions of children and then offering one seventh of what the initial bill would have brought to the table(35 billion).I am sorry to say, but President Bush is really stupid. I mean come on. How can you deny children (ten million to that point) health insurance all in the name of helping poorer children. These were the poorer children. They can't get on welfare, so I guess they don't really count. They can't afford private insurance, so this begs question of what are we going to do when we have ten million kids in our Nation's hospitals who can't afford the health care? That means major bills for their parents never to see the light of a debt free life again. Again I am sorry to say it, but President Bush has no soul.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/washington/19healthcnd.html?hp
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Bush Vetoes Children's Health Bill To Save The Poor
The president just vetoed a bill that would allow for expansion of the SCHIP program. The SCHIP program allowed families who made too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but couldn't buy private insurance qualify for quality insurance. Each of the States were given an approved plan from the government with a lot of flexibility and the government would match the states funds. In short the states could exercise there rights to qualify needy people for insurance and the federal government would back them up.
The president decided that the government should focus on only the "truly unfortunate" and not those that were left in the gap of not qualifying for Medicaid, but couldn't afford private insurance. The Senate has enough voting power from both republicans and democrats to overturn the bill, but the house is still "on the fence" with the issue. The voting has been postponed till October twelfth so the supporters of the bill could round up enough votes to cancel the veto.
Bush Vetoed the bill so that he could help poor children/less fortunate, but he only intends on spending five billion dollars in contrast to the 35 that would be spent for the expansion of the SCHIP program.
I may be ignorant or wrong here, but is the president really all that bad of a guy? I mean come on he is wasting millions/billions of dollars in Iraq so we can keep our fuel supply going and let the rich keep getting richer. That doesn't really sound all that bad does it? The question I have to ask is "is the president really the monster that the media and all of America, our Senators and Representatives make him out to be?" Is the fact that our president running by his own agenda really not all that American. Pardon the sarcasm, but Bush has seemed to have lost his marbles in his last years in office. I mean really what kind of budget crisis are we facing that we have to cut funding for a good program like SCHIP. Did you know that the income limit for medicaid is 798 dollars for a single person and 1079 for a couple per month.
I have a friend who works at a good company (paid benefits fortunately), but he only makes about 2000 dollars a month. His rent is about five hundred dollars a month and when you factor in car payments, gas, bills and car insurance there really is not much left for medical insurance. He would have to save for half of a year just to cover the deductible on a private insurance like State Farm. So do I believe Bush has once again lost his mind yes. when you seem to be trying to line your pockets or fill your agenda by backhanding the unfortunate then I have every right to call you a bad president.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/washington/04bush.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
The president decided that the government should focus on only the "truly unfortunate" and not those that were left in the gap of not qualifying for Medicaid, but couldn't afford private insurance. The Senate has enough voting power from both republicans and democrats to overturn the bill, but the house is still "on the fence" with the issue. The voting has been postponed till October twelfth so the supporters of the bill could round up enough votes to cancel the veto.
Bush Vetoed the bill so that he could help poor children/less fortunate, but he only intends on spending five billion dollars in contrast to the 35 that would be spent for the expansion of the SCHIP program.
I may be ignorant or wrong here, but is the president really all that bad of a guy? I mean come on he is wasting millions/billions of dollars in Iraq so we can keep our fuel supply going and let the rich keep getting richer. That doesn't really sound all that bad does it? The question I have to ask is "is the president really the monster that the media and all of America, our Senators and Representatives make him out to be?" Is the fact that our president running by his own agenda really not all that American. Pardon the sarcasm, but Bush has seemed to have lost his marbles in his last years in office. I mean really what kind of budget crisis are we facing that we have to cut funding for a good program like SCHIP. Did you know that the income limit for medicaid is 798 dollars for a single person and 1079 for a couple per month.
I have a friend who works at a good company (paid benefits fortunately), but he only makes about 2000 dollars a month. His rent is about five hundred dollars a month and when you factor in car payments, gas, bills and car insurance there really is not much left for medical insurance. He would have to save for half of a year just to cover the deductible on a private insurance like State Farm. So do I believe Bush has once again lost his mind yes. when you seem to be trying to line your pockets or fill your agenda by backhanding the unfortunate then I have every right to call you a bad president.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/washington/04bush.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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