What do you think of Bush vetoing the SCHIP?

Question

I think it was a mistake. This was passed by quite a few republicans as well as democrats. It makes Bush look like he doesn't want to help working families with their kids health. I think he knows his support cannot go much lower, so he doesn't have much to lose.

I think the expansion of SCHIP was a good idea. That way, single parents would only have to get individual health insurance rather than a family plan, which is usually 3 or 4 times as much.

Answer 1

Thank goodness that our President will say NO to Socialism.

Answer 2

Bush seems to have it in for this very successful program for minorities and poor kids. I think there is more to it than meets the public eye...For one thing the motto for SCHIP is and has always been"no child left behind" and guess who stole that very saying for a corrupted scool program that many teachers, students and parents don't like? Not only that the tax is an indirect tax that has nothing to do with "raising taxes" for everyone,as the president claims....That is a lie...It is only added to cigarettes and who is in bed with big business? Why the president of course...so who will suffer? Why that would be the people who need the most help...Well you know a man like Mr Chavez is looking better and better as a leader to me...He is one of many leaders now who decry the selfish greedy side of our government and the way our poor and elderly and minorities are treated in this country...Even on the European Journal the report stated the president was against the poor and children of this the wealthiest nation..So where is all that wealth concentrated? In our CEOs and corporate heads of companies and as of now the government represents all of them...Cheney is still on the payroll of Haloburten and one of Bush's largest contributers is Prince the owner of Blackwater,,,Anymore that will help the input on SCHIP is found on the internet. The head of SCHIP was interviewed on Democracy Now several months ago..She(a black woman) stated that they had thought of suing the President &co. but they felt it would waste time and that was more valuable doing their work....Who would you say had more integrity?

Answer 3

Vetoing SCHIP is good for the future.

We have SCHIP, Medicaid, Medicare, and so forth and Hillary still wants Hillary Care and $5000 baby bond?

It is not the people's fault that some people cannot afford health insurance. The trend is that everything costs more and more each year. Instead of trying to keep cost down, the gov tries to take over it. Plus, it moves a ton of jobs out of the country which just makes the whole thing worst because people are loosing jobs and they cannot afford insurance (yep, more drainage of tax $).

Answer 4

The government should in NO WAY be involved in providing benefits for working Americans. That can only be called 'letting the employer off the hook'. In the past, workers went on strike and picketed demanding benefits. Today, workers just whine and scream that the President is mean and won't give, give, give. Today's CEO's and stockholders are bringing in money, all at the cost of the bottom-feeding worker. The Wal-Marts of America know that just over-price the health care plan, and the workers can go down to the government office and sign up for benefits. heck, they might just make so little they can get food stamps and low-cost heating bill too. Corporate responsibility to its workers is GONE. the low-end workers today just will not stand up to the employers, "Oh my, I might lose my job". Grandpas whoo fought hard for worker rights would roll over in their grave to hear workers today so easily running to the welfare office for benefits, instead of staging a mass walk-out.

Answer 5

it was a bad bill

see earlier questions today on same subject for full discussion. In essence, the whole thing was the Dems setting up a campaign issue, not a serious attempt to make useful policy or a valuable program.

The idea is to write an awful bill that you can politicize to the nines and then shove it through Congress.

Of course, the subject has to be relatively minor -- you won't see a bill to defund US troops in Iraq, nor will you see the tax increase required to stabilize Social Security done this way -- both of those are so important that the Dems won't touch them until Hillary in in the White House.


;-)

Answer 6

because of the fact he's an ignorant ****-head who's purely vetoing it to thumb his nostril on the Democratic Congress. inspite of the shown fact that it is not important, Congress is gonna rigidity it by using no count if or not Bush likes it.

Answer 7

the thing is these bills and things are like hundreds of pages long of poop.....both parties do it....they try to sneak in little things surrounded by crap......i wish they would just state whats really being voted on......instead you pass a bill for kids getting high grades in school and now the sales tax is like 12% or something........i think things would be better if every President vetoed all things summited.

Answer 8

Thank goodness. It is bad enough that Illegal Immigrants get free health care at all of the nations hospital's but Congress wanted to subsidize an HMO for them.

Answer 9

Honestly, although I always try to support the president, I can't justify this decision. He tried to say giving these kids health insurance would be a step towards universal healthcare (which I agree is a bad idea) but I don't buy that. Kids in this country should not have to go without basic health care. I think it was a terrible choice on his part, and may really hurt the republican cause in this next election. Bad move.

Answer 10

He doesn't have to worry about getting elected again and he's basically a lame-duck president so he can do more politically risky actions without fear of being defeated in an election. For better or worse he hasn't seemed to care too much about public approval, especially since his reelection, but it did cost the GOP the midterms.

Answer 11

let see, what has this president done in 7 years for the middle class, or the poor, absolutely nothing, so should itbe shocking that he vetoed something tht could have helped the poor. I am so sick and tired of hearing how great our medical system is, i have been trying to get an mri for my sons condition for three months now and the best they can do is november, and you say we can have all of our medical conditions dealt with here faster than europe, i say you are dead wrong, and i speak from experience.