Bush's War on Uninsured Kids

by   |  August 21, 2007

Should we start denying health care to kids because their parents' paychecks aren't big enough? Of course not! George Bush doesn't see things that way. He seems to think that extending the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), which helps provide medical care to low-income kids, is a bad idea. So, he's promising to veto it—even though both the House and the Senate recently passed initiatives to grant more funding and cover more children under the program. Pres. McEntee has denounced the Bush administration's offensive against uninsured kids. Read his latest Huffington Post blog here. He writes: "In America today, 9 million children live without health insurance. Nearly 70 percent of the children without health insurance have at least one parent who is employed. This is just not right." Read the complete post here.