Bush vetoes children's health bill a second time

by Brian White (Subscribe to Brian White's posts)
Dec 14th 2007 6:16PM

For the second time this year, U.S. President George Bush took a health bill related to increasing health insurance for needy U.S. children and vetoed it.

Although Bush declared the bill would have overstepped the bounds of helping poor children who needed health care and into a social state of organized medicine, where is the line drawn when it comes to the health of kids who otherwise could not access such care?

Most Democrats and many Republicans supported the bill, but under a Republican administration, any bill that looks like government-sponsored health care is surely to be axed. But then, I ask again -- does it matter when it comes to the health care of kids? Regardless of your political affiliation, what are your thoughts on this?

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jacque Denise Yap 7-10-2008 @ 4:11AM

yeah right poor children need that.. i mean most of the problem is all about health, it's important that our government should help those need..of all the issues like the oil price hike that affects all the prices from food to houses..and now housing market crisis is a major issue in the upcoming US Presidential Election and has a significant impact for all Americans where Obama and McCain talk about in http://pollclash.com .just like soaring oil prices are affecting the costs of everything from food to gas and even houses rental. There are also significant issues on local and global environmental impact. While there are many issues, we need to look at our next leader and determine which will have the best course of action going forward. Both candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama are attempting to address the issue and differentiate their positions from one another. And I think that everyone is missing the point of this. We need a new resource. We need a solution to this problem not another way around it…

Brian 12-14-2007 @ 6:45PM

socialized medicine
-- long wait times.
-- make medical appointments weeks to months in advance.
-- when sick go to "sick call", ER for sick people, very long wait times. hours with other sick people.
-- less opportunities of doctor choice, procedures and medicines.
-- government regulating medicine such as: allowed procedures, medicine choices, when you can see a specialist.
-- government buying medicine from the lowest bidder.
-- huge increase in taxes with steady tax increases.
without a huge increase or steady increase in taxes the level of quality will go down for health care.
-- less money for research on medical procedures and new medicines.
-- harder for new doctors to start a new practice.
-- health care system like the military health care system.

Dan 12-15-2007 @ 1:12PM

Agreed with first comments. The reason health care is so expensive is the misguided belief that health care is a "right". Health care works best when there is competition and doctors/hospitals have to compete for our business like any other business.

Trying to force socialized medicine on us under the guise of "It's for the children" is borderline treasonous...