Bu$h: No Affordable Healthcare
Bush Threatens Child Health Insurance Veto
President Bush has renewed a threat to veto a bill that would extend health insurance to more than three million low-income children. Last week Senators reached a bipartisan agreement to add thirty five billion dollars to the Children’s Health Insurance Program over the next five years by increasing federal taxes on cigarettes. Senators say the extra funding would help cover some of the nation’s eight million uninsured children as well as some adults with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but not high enough to afford private insurance. President Bush wants Congress to limit the increase to just five billion dollars.
Bush: “I Believe Gov. Can’t Provide Affordable Health Care” On Wednesday, he repeated his threat to veto the bill on ideological grounds.
President Bush: “I believe government cannot provide affordable health care. I believe it would cause -- it would cause the quality of care to diminish. I believe there would be lines and rationing over time. If Congress continues to insist upon expanding health care through the S-CHIP program -- which, by the way, would entail a huge tax increase for the American people -- I'll veto the bill.”
Many consider renewal of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program the most important health legislation taken up by Congress this year.
Source: Democracy Now, July 19, 2007
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Basically, then, American healthcare is unaffordable, and the government won't do anything about it. Because Americans can't afford medical treatment, they will suffer and die.
Too bad the corporate media, which includes much of the pseudo-alternative media like Democracy Now. lacks even elementary analytical skills--and lacks the will to properly utilize whatever abilities to analyze they do possess. Regurgitating press releases without providing any context or background is not much of a public service.
The Bu$h Regime probably supports organizations like Democracy Now, for the basic message of DN is that we are helpless against overwhelming odds. How often does DN encourage its viewership to do *anything*? When DN does actually suggest something, just how often is the proposed action something likely to actually produce any results beyond therapeutic but ineffective venting?
TLC
President Bush has renewed a threat to veto a bill that would extend health insurance to more than three million low-income children. Last week Senators reached a bipartisan agreement to add thirty five billion dollars to the Children’s Health Insurance Program over the next five years by increasing federal taxes on cigarettes. Senators say the extra funding would help cover some of the nation’s eight million uninsured children as well as some adults with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but not high enough to afford private insurance. President Bush wants Congress to limit the increase to just five billion dollars.
Bush: “I Believe Gov. Can’t Provide Affordable Health Care” On Wednesday, he repeated his threat to veto the bill on ideological grounds.
President Bush: “I believe government cannot provide affordable health care. I believe it would cause -- it would cause the quality of care to diminish. I believe there would be lines and rationing over time. If Congress continues to insist upon expanding health care through the S-CHIP program -- which, by the way, would entail a huge tax increase for the American people -- I'll veto the bill.”
Many consider renewal of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program the most important health legislation taken up by Congress this year.
Source: Democracy Now, July 19, 2007
_______________________________________
Basically, then, American healthcare is unaffordable, and the government won't do anything about it. Because Americans can't afford medical treatment, they will suffer and die.
Too bad the corporate media, which includes much of the pseudo-alternative media like Democracy Now. lacks even elementary analytical skills--and lacks the will to properly utilize whatever abilities to analyze they do possess. Regurgitating press releases without providing any context or background is not much of a public service.
The Bu$h Regime probably supports organizations like Democracy Now, for the basic message of DN is that we are helpless against overwhelming odds. How often does DN encourage its viewership to do *anything*? When DN does actually suggest something, just how often is the proposed action something likely to actually produce any results beyond therapeutic but ineffective venting?
TLC
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