Please Sir, May I Have Some Health Care?

On Wednesday, President Bush vetoed a bill that would extend health care for poor children. The State Children’s Health Insurance Program would have added four million children to the six million already covered. The president told the authors of the bill that the people that could be benefited by this bill, families earning up to $83,000 a year, do not sound poor to him.
This is not the first time a president has proposed cutting health care for the poor. In 1981 President Reagan wanted to transfer federally supported health programs to state and local governments would leave the ''poor and the undeserved'' competing for scarce funds. Senator Edward M. Kennedy said 'These Federal programs were developed precisely because states and local governments were either unwilling or unable to meet basic health care needs,'' said at a session of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

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