There Goes Our Children’s Health Insurance Coverage.
This absolutely disaster! The House of Representatives refused to override President Bush’s veto on the $35 billion expansion of the government children’s health insurance program. The bill had bipartisan support but the 273-156 roll call was 13 votes short of the two-thirds that majority supporters needed to enact the bill into law over Bush’s objections.
That unsuccessful veto had driven the call to next negotiation to decide the fate of SCHIP program. Bush has state that those vetoes would pushed children who already coverage by private health insurance company to public financed health care that could create an “entitlement”.
Those would outstrip the money raised by the bill’s 61-cent increase in the federal tobacco tax. To pay for the increase, the bill would have raised the federal tax on cigarettes from 39 cents to $1.00 a pack.
November 11th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article s Health Insurance Coverage., but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.