President Bush should Veto State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP)

The House and Senate voted last week over the Bush administrations objections to go ahead and expand the S-CHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program), the congress did initially create the program to cover children whose parents were doing rather well to qualify for the Medicaid but not that well to buy their very own insurance.

Now they are looking to extend the coverage to these families earning up to 300% of the federal poverty level which is basically just over $60,000 for a family of 4, and with this children up to 25 years old, this is what the expansion Congress is seeking now. A welfare benefit for middle class households is what the Bush administration is calling it and is correct to call it this, and if the final bill comes from the conference which looks anything like the current versions don’t you think President Bush should come good and promise to Vito it.

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