So you veto health insurance for kids? Really??
THIS is one of President Bush's 4 total vetos? Are you kidding? How do you veto health insurance for children? I guess the White House's new motto is "Billions for offense, not one penny for poor children!" Doesn't exactly have the same ring as its Adam-era predecessor (by Rep. Robert Goodloe Harper).
And what is their excuse, you might ask? Congress asked for $35 billion to cover an additional 7 million kids whose families make too much money to qualify for Medicare, but not enough to actually afford health insurance coverage on their own. The Bushies view this as moving beyond "helping poor children", so they want to only minimally fund $5 billion so that only the poorest of the poor get help. That's fantastic rationale: "We only agreed to help the really poor (so we wouldn't look like heartless bastards with a presidential election coming up), but we're not going to start helping the only kinda poor kids too! Socialized medicine! Socialized medicine!"
Come on! Is this really going to put the health insurance companies out of business? Really? THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO BUY INSURANCE NOW, WE'RE NOT STEALING CUSTOMERS!!
I cannot stomach an administration who would rather see 7 million children go without health insurance than risk harming health insurance companies. Where is the common decency? The only way this gets worse is when the health insurance companies issue their 2007 10-Ks and we learn that its been a record-setting profits year. I hope the tears of poor children have medicinal properties, because that's all the Bush Administration is going to allow them to have.
posted by Pete @ 10/03/2007 10:54:00 AM
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When 'too poor' is considered $80K a year, I find the whole business dubious.
...but sure - it is much easier to say "GWB hates children." Paging Kanye...
You're right, instead the small businesses that pay these moochers on the dole $80K per year - but don't provide health insurance - should provide health insurance for all of their employees. Right?
I mean, if its beyond doubt that a man or woman making up to $80K per year (or both parents making $40K) can afford health insurance for their family (no matter HOW many children there are), than it is even FURTHER beyond doubt that the business that employs them can afford to provide it. Right? I mean, they even have an economy of scale, assuming they're providing it for more than 1 employee. Agreed?
And GWB does not hate children. That would require him to care, one way or the other, about them in a non-election year (for him). To deserve that level of attention, you'd better be listed on the NASDAQ (at a minimum, NYSE is better) or be really good at blowing something up.
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