For children’s health before they were against it.
By on Aug 22nd, 2007 at 1:25 pm
For children’s health before they were against it.
The New York Times reported this week that the Bush administration is thwarting states’ attempts to expand the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program beyond the poverty level. But for more than six years, the Bush administration was a strong advocate of the same provision it now opposes. Dave Meyer writes, “The administration regularly touted the system’s flexibility as the key to its efficiency and a model for other federal health programs. Now the Republicans are attacking SCHIP for that same flexibility.”
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Why do Republicans hate our children’s health?
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:27 pmI think they’re always thinking of the children, until they really need to think of the children.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:28 pmOnly the Mark Foleys (R-FL) think about the children.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:30 pmHey Republicans use our soldiers as political footballs why not children.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:34 pmHow are we going to continue to support the Surge in 2020 when all of our future soldiers will be without the benefit of a strong health program now….?
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:35 pmWhy is the Bush administration so mean-spirited?
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:37 pmComment by raynman — August 22, 2007 @ 1:35 pm
No fear. The College Republicans are a force to be reckoned with. Now all we need to do is have the Pentagon recognize them as a reserve component.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:39 pmEvery child who is insured by the government is another child who isn’t insured by the for-profit health insurance companies. Bush just wants to keep the number of government-insured children as low as possible to keep his big-business buddies happy.
Of course, Bush can’t use that as a reason for dissing the program, so look for creative (and ever-changing) justifications for his opposition.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:43 pmyes!
we can have brave leader Foley lead the way!
we are safe from the islamofascists!
thanks to god, mark foley, and the young republicans!
horay!
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:44 pmA hypocrite Republican……so what’s new?
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:45 pmLaura read “A Modest Proposal” to W as a bedtime story, and he thought it was a great idea.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:47 pmUS health care for millions of children has to go to Iraq and contractors. Look Bush has taken from every agency that helps Americans. Now we see reporters tell of how the US gives the best health care to Iraqi children and even bring them to the US for treatment. Yet American children as left out. Bush isn’t in charge of the White House he just there to follow orders. Now the big businesses that put Bush/Cheney in office have to get all they can as time is running out. Millions of Americans are losing their homes and job now millions of American children will die because of lack of health care. Welcome to America and our Dictator George W. Bush.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:47 pmJust part of the Repugs’ “No Child Left Alive” initiative.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:49 pmRepublican Mantra: We love children, as long as they’re unborn.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:50 pmA father with an uninsured childr is a potential sucker to the hard-sell military recruiters. The more uninsured kids, the easier it is to “convince” poor fathers to sign up.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:52 pmHere in Oregon there is a proposal on the ballot to raise the cigarette tax to fund more uninsured kids. The tobacco industry is all over it forming an ‘independent’ group called ‘Oregonians Against the Blank Check’
The insurance companies are paying Bush big time to stop anything regarding universal health insurance. They know how much people hate them.
Corporate Amerika is fighting to the last to keep their obscene profits.
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:00 pmWith his vocal opposition to the expansion of the S-CHIP program to provide health care coverage for more of America’s children, President Bush is returning to the same tried and true formula he first pioneered in Texas. That is, Bush initially fought the legislation on ideological grounds before caving to popular pressure and grudgingly accepting some version of the bill. Then, as with the Texas S-CHIP program, the Texas Patients Bill of Right and the 2003 Medicare prescription drug benefit, Bush claimed credit for it.
for the details, see:
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:05 pm“S-CHIP on Bush’s Shoulder.”
Republican mantra:
Don’t kill your unborn child, wait till it’s born and we’ll do it for you!
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:07 pmIf we don’t kill em for lack of health care, we’ll find a war to do it.
Cut George W. Bush’s health insurance policy, as funded by the tax payers. That mole can scrape its own colon with a toothbrush or use tweezers to room his polyps, for all I care.
America, let us stop funding Georgie’s salary.
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:15 pmFor children’s health before they were against it.
I would also add: “For states’ rights before they were against them”.
Either way: Flip-flop!!
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:03 pmOnly the Mark Foleys (R-FL) think about the children.
Comment by robbez_92107
10 bucks says michael jackson is a dem
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:16 pmIt’s simple–none of these kids vote! Those of us who do, need to care enough. We’ve been sold lies for years about not needing taxes–but look at our deteriorating infrastructure, inability to relieve the suffering of Katrina, at our uninsured millions, all as the rich prosper as everyone else is pushed down. Class warfare, crony capitalism, and war profiteering are the only CHIPS on the table that the Bushites keep their eyes upon.
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:20 pmThis is purely political. SCHIP was cool when is was all about the Republicans backing it, but now that national health care is an issue and Hillary may become the next President, all of the sudden the Repukes don\’t want to create any appearance that they support anything remotely resembling nationalized health care.
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:32 pmI would also add: “For states’ rights before they were against themâ€.
How exactly do you extend ’state’s rights’ to matching federal funds? Cut New York off, then they can do what they want.
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:25 pm