Children’s health insurance is an odd fight for Bush
By E. J. Dionne | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 | The Boston Globe
“THIS WEEK’S showdown over children’s health insurance is the first skirmish in the new battle for universal health coverage. It is also the first confrontation between the president and Congress fought out almost entirely on terms set by the new Democratic majority.
On no spending issue do Democrats have broader public support – or more Republican allies – than on expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is why they have chosen this as the issue on which they want to take their first stand.
Bush, meanwhile, has confirmed what was clear when he was Texas governor but little noted when he first ran for president: When it comes to expanding government-sponsored health insurance for low-income kids, he is a skeptic. Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt coined a new word last week by saying that it’s ‘the ideologic question that we want to focus on.’ He was candidly describing an administration dug into a posture that even conservative Republicans in Congress reject….”…BS
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