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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:47 am Post subject: President, Congress Meet Consensus On SCHIP
President Bush on Saturday signed legislation extending the State Children's Health Insurance Program after successfully defeating attempts by congressional Democrats to expand coverage to middle income families with household incomes in excess of $100,000.
Subsequent to President Bush's two vetoes of alternate drafts of the SCHIP bill Americans were bombarded with countless headlines painting the President as cold-hearted and bent on denying health care to children. Only upon close examination of the underlying article could the typical one sentence explanation of the over-expansion of coverage be found.
Under the terms contained in the final draft, SCHIP will continue to cover only those whom it was designed to support: children of families which can not afford private insurance but whose incomes exceed the limits for medicaid coverage.
The over-expansion of SCHIP coverage proposed by Democrats and supported by several Republicans was to be funded through a tobacco tax increase--yet another underhanded attempt by lawmakers to force their beliefs onto American citizens ("Smoking is bad for people, why not just make those that choose to do it anyway pay colossal amounts of money? They'll thank us later. After all, we know what's best for them!").
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