The President vetoed a children’s health insurance expansion bill today, just like he said he would.
Typical.
Despite considerable bipartisan opposition, the will of millions of Americans worried about keeping their kids healthy, and logic itself, President Bush has stuck to his guns and stayed the course.
He stayed the course all right—plowing right through 4 million uninsured kids.
The bill was going to expand the original SCHIP’s coverage from 6 million children to 10 million by 2012. Furthermore, funding for the program will come from cigarette taxes, for goodness’s sake. I won’t even bring the war bill into this; the incongruity there is already as obvious as it can get.
The President defends himself by saying the bill is a step toward federalizing health care and depriving Americans of their freedom to choose their own health coverage.
That’s one heck of a step.
No matter what lofty ideology the President is clutching to, this is the health of millions of kids we’re talking about. The U.S. will not turn into a socialist state just because the government gives Timmy a Spider-Man band-aid.
Mr. President, please have some perspective.
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