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Kucinich’s ‘no’ vote on SCHIP

Brian — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:52:07 +0000

Jerid posted on this over at BSB last night (after I had gone to bed, actually). I specifically wanted to comment on Kucinich’s comments about his no vote.

?I cannot support legislation which extends health coverage to some children while openly denying it to other children,? Kucinich said. ?This legislation is woefully inadequate: and I will not support it.

?Legal immigrant children deserve the same quality health care as other children receive. It is Congress? responsibility to address the main difficulties that prevent legal immigrant children from gaining access to health care. Today, we did exactly the [...]

Bush interfering with states that wish to expand the social safety net

Brian — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:56:24 +0000

That’s right, President Bush has set new policies that would actually prevent individual states from expanding the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

The Bush administration, continuing its fight to stop states from expanding the popular Children?s Health Insurance Program, has adopted new standards that would make it much more difficult for New York, California and others to extend coverage to children in middle-income families.

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The Children?s Health Insurance Program has strong support from governors of both parties, including Republicans like Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and Sonny Perdue of Georgia. When the Senate passed a bill [...]

John Boehner Puts Politics Ahead of Children?

Joseph — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:47:52 +0000

Jonathan over at MYDD.com has a good post up today discussing the fight in congress over expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

House Republican leader, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio has threatened that “Republicans will fight these proposals”.

And the Democrats have accused Boehner and the Republicans of trying to deny the Democrats a political victory through their “diligence to the cause of obstructionism”.

Which does seems reasonable.

But Jonathan takes it step further, suggesting that some of these Republican lawmakers are actually ideologically opposed to giving kids healthcare.

Given that “Americans support the idea of expanding [...]

Strickland’s SotS address

Brian — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:09:28 +0000

I have to be honest, I had tempered my expectations going in… and Strickland blew me out of the water. Belt-tightening in excess of Blackwell’s ridiculous spending cap nonsense, a freeze on college tuition, and a real focus on improving the lot of Ohioans living in the bottom half. In addition to killing the voucher program, he’s increasing the state’s funding of schools while cutting property taxes, targeting increases to troubled districts, and dramatically increasing accountability. Lots of excellent stuff about education.

Then there is health care. I wish I took notes, or fisked the speech live, but bottom line [...]

Bush Won’t Help Sick Children – Needs Money For The War

Joseph — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:37:11 +0000

Governor Ted Strickland was in Washington yesterday for the winter meeting of the National Governors Association- where he helped push the Bush administration to provide more cash to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

George, of course, just wanted to talk about the war.

When asked about the cut in funding proposed by his recent budget- and how it would mean that some kids wouldn’t be covered- Bush told the Governors that it was a “management problem” i.e. “You guys figure it out- I need the money for my war”.

Next time, I’d like to see the governors tell [...]