President Vetos SCHIP Reauthorization

President Bush vetoed a bill (HR 976 - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00976: ) to reauthorize State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) on October 3, sending it back to Congress. A compromise of the Senate and House's reauthorization priorities, the bill had experienced broad bipartisan support in Congress, with the Senate passing it by a veto-proof margin of 67-29 on September 27, and a 265-159 House passage on September 25. Given the Senate veto-proof majority, the bill first returned to the House where, on October 18, it failed to garner the two-thirds majority necessary to override the President's veto, by a vote of 273-156. To see how your Representative voted on the veto override ( http://chn.org/pdf/2007/SCHIPoverridevote.pdf ). The current SCHIP program expired on September 30, but is maintained through November 16 through a continuing resolution (CR). Congress and the President must act before then to ensure continuation of SCHIP; the House passed a modified version of the bill by 265-142 on October 25.

The compromise bill vetoed by the President would reauthorize SCHIP and expand the program to provide 10 million low-income children with health care, 6 million of who are currently uninsured. The bill also would add $35 billion in funding to the program over the next five years. The additional funding would be paid for by a 61-cent-per-pack increase in the tobacco tax. SCHIP coverage of childless adults and parents would be phased out to maintain the program's focus on kids, and dental and mental health coverage would be added. The modifications to the House's revised bill include: a cap on income eligibility for uninsured children; phase-out of childless adults in one year (rather than two); required state plans to prevent "crowd out" of families leaving private insurance for SCHIP; and enforcements to prevent uninsured children from enrolling.

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[tyeporter]

Xiola - I did not approve your comment because you had more foul language than anything else.

If you're able to rewrite your post with more intelligent and and civil language, I'll be glad to approve it and discusss this with you.

Thank you.

[tyeporter]

I ALWAYS "approve" comments before they are posted.

I don't approve rants, spam and rarely do I approve foul language.

Seldom do I approve comments from liberals who use a moderate voice and coll themselves conservatives but in your case I've made an exception.

So far...

[tyeporter]

OH, now I understand what it is you're misunderstanding. The US Gov't does not provide healthcare other than to a minority few who are temporarily qualified for extreme aid.

The numbers at which you must be looking are what the Average American spends on healthcare.

Those numbers are as inflated as they are because the Gov't gets involved with healthcare and causes the providers to inflate their costs.

The US Gov't should spend ZERO per person.

We are a Republic, after all.

[TeamSIckoEh]

Now comment needed to be approved... so you are afraid of people making comments on your videos - only a coward would do that - or someone who can NOT defend their position

[TeamSIckoEh]

The USA spends about $7000 per person for health care and canada spends about $3500.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT A CONSERTIVE IN CANADA IS -

I AM A RIGHT WING PERSON WHO THINKS OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN CANADA IS PRETTY GOOD AND MUCH BETTER THAN THE USA.

Canada spends about 1/2 the amount per person and still is BETTER than the USA.

[tyeporter]

Actually, nobody will have lost any coverage. The "expansion" was only to cover more children so that they can migrate from their current health care providers.

I appreciate that you pointed out that the

US is 37th behind Canada because we officially don't spend anything on healthcare (we're not socialist) therefore ranking only 7 places behind a country that's supposed to spend to care for its denizens illustrates how serverly pathetic socialism truly is.

[TeamSIckoEh]

If SCHIP is not expanded then some of the kids that are covered by SCHIP will lost their health insurance.

republican only care to spend money on the IRAQ war.

I am a Conservite in Canada and think the Republicans and libertarins are STUPID.

The free market is what is causing all the Health Care problems.

Canada is ranked #30 by WHO and the USA is #37 by WHO and canada spends about 1/2 the amount per person on health care.