Senate OKs wider kids' health program

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/2/07 | Julie Hirschfeld Davis - ap

[thelastvirgil]

Socialism at its best, on display in the halls of OUR congress, and with the support of so-called Republican, small-government types. This bill, if I understand it correctly, is to be funded in part by a $1.00-per-pack cigarette tax. Wait until the great unwashed amongst the entitled get a whopping dose of that brand of income distribution. There’ll be Hell to pay unless Dubya has the nads to veto this POS legislation.

[torchthemummy]

Thanks!

[ran20]

I calculate already the government spends 1 trillion on healthcare. Medicare, Medicaid, VA benefits, government employee and retiree and family health care insurance... and now programs like this for kids.. I might even be a little low.

Well that is 3300$ per capita we spend. France spends about that, but they have free universal health care for all. So why do we have to pay for that much publicly.. then pay that much again privately.

[Shethink13]

It also gave Democrats, who secured a veto-proof margin, a chance to draw a stark distinction between their priorities and Bush's on an issue that resonates with voters.

Veto-proof in the Senate, but not in the House.