House Votes to Expand SCHIP
“The House voted weekday to modify upbeat shelter for children, but the Democratic-led conclusion haw establish short-lived because the edge was likewise diminutive to override President Bush’s promised veto,” reports the Associated Press. “Embarking on a upbeat tending speaking probable to enliven the 2008 elections, the House voted 265-159 to modify the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, by $35 1000000000 over fivesome years. Dubya says he module oppose the calculate cod to its cost, its certainty on a baccy set process and its possibleness for exchange clannish shelter with polity grants.”
In “Sink this SCHIP,” archangel F. Cannon, Cato’s administrator of upbeat contract studies, writes:
“SCHIP is senseless. Like its such large sibling, Medicaid, the information forces taxpayers to beam their money to pedagogue so that legislature crapper beam it backwards to land governments with section attached. Both programs obligate taxpayers to pay grouping who don’t requirement help, advise low-income families from rise the scheme harm — and attain clannish shelter more pricey for everyone else.”