For Immediate Release
Thursday, October 18, 2007
“Morally Outrageous Vote Slashes Health Care for Ten Million Kids”
Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on the House Override Vote for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
“Ten million American children will not get the health care they need because of a small group of callous Republicans led by President Bush. They can find billions of dollars to spend on a never-ending war in Iraq, but won’t fund doctor’s visits for children. This vote was morally outrageous. We will continue our efforts to renew and expand SCHIP and to work with the bipartisan majority on Capitol Hill who support health care for millions of America’s children.”
AFSCME and a consortium of other groups spent $5 million on an advertising campaign to flood Capitol Hill with hundreds of thousands of calls, letters and E-mails, and sponsored more than 200 events across the nation, to protect SCHIP.
