Who else just LOVES how Bush vetoed a children's healthcare bill???

Question

It would have provided coverage to a bunch of people, mostly children, currently without insurance..... Wow. What a great guy.

The What Should I Do -- so is the corrent answer then to just say screw the children because their parents make too much? What about the kids??

Sorry I meant CORRECT, not corrent.

I go out and work and provide for myself too --- but come on! We spend all that money on the stupid War on Iraq while we screw our own children here at home.

Justagrandma - EXCELLENT response.

Answer 1

Hey, come on, we can't be diverting a months worth of Iraqi quagmire money to help American citizens.

Answer 2

As usual , only part of the story. This overspent bill included free medical care to people making about 100,000 dollars a year. Those people can afford to pay their own insurance. Another issue not advertised in this bill is that it covers illegals for free insurance as well. Who pays ? They say it will be covered by a increase in cigarette tax of over 60 cents a pack. Let me get this straight, a bad health habit that everyone want us to stop doing will finance a program that deals with health ? Every year more and more people quit smoking. With that in mind less money coming in, will not finance this program. More taxes on us will be the only answer. It is a shame that Congress as usual will not tell the American public all about the bill , they only say it is a children's health bill. Give us a bill we can afford to pay for and not hide who really benefits and not the needy that do need the help.

Answer 3

Yes, it would cover the children of the middle class. Those whose parents work but no longer get insurance through their jobs, as has happened very often these days. The eighty thousand dollar figure is for the State of NY, Alaska, and Hawaii due to its high costs of living.
Its calculated on the basis of a twenty thousand dollar poverty level times two or three or four, depending on the state.
Its not meant to replace Medicaid. Medicaid is for the poor.
It would have been paid for, not out of income taxes but out of an increased tax on cigarettes.
Nothing is more important than the health of our children, Bush's veto and the capitulation of Congress as its inability to override it is proof of what Bush is worried about...money for his war, money for the insurance companies, and the devil take the people.

Answer 4

The problem isn't that he vetoed the bill. The problem is that he doesn't veto every law which takes money from people by force (taxes) to give to other people, that congress keeps passing such laws, and that the people keep putting up with it.l

Taking care of people who need help is a good thing. Using the government as an intermediary to steal money from other people to support your favorite cause is stealing, no matter how good your cause is. If health care for children is a good thing (it is) that most people support (do they?) then people should have no problem setting up clinics to provide the care and getting people to support them voluntarilly, without using government force to do it.

Answer 5

Those kids shouldn't get a free ride. They should get a job making lead toys or serve in the war. Quit crying about those little people taking advantage of our system, the system isn't here to serve the people the people are here to serve the system. I say initiate a draft for people under 18 to dig trenches and plant bombs in the War. They get coverage in the military, when the War is over tell em to get a job. Teach little jimmy nothing is free and life is hard. If they still don't do it we could just eat or sacrifice them in Bush's honor.

Answer 6

When you can convince me that someone making $86,000 a year deserves health insurance intended to help poor families, I will say it was wrong to veto the bill.

Sorry, but $86,000/year does not constitute poverty. Not to mention the fact that people making this kind of money already have the option for health care for their families thru their work.

Answer 7

as longs as the dem's keep putting these social programs in front of bush they will continue to get veto'd, any thing that interferes with big pharma and big medical insurance is dead in the water, there is no way hillary or any other dem will pass any kind of health care, this is a fairy tale that does not have a happy ending. they all talk about health care , but you can forget it.as bad as it is not having health care I do not think you would want gov. health care anyway, is there anything they do right?

Answer 8

Well there are the Iraqis and the unborn babies to consider. After all a kid with asthma is not more important then Haliburton making money.

Answer 9

It's crazy. Blank checks for wars. But there's just no way we can afford to cover the healthcare of our children. I guess they are so scared of anything that resembles socialism in the least. Pathetic.

Answer 10

There were other provisions in that bill that were bad - riders that the democrats have attached, and the President had told the Speaker and House Leadership that he would veto the bill if those provisions were attached, so it came as no surprise when he did.

Answer 11

ain't he the bomb!

Iraq is more important than the youth - the future of America. Let's spend the money there to accomplish nothing but to make war contractors richer.