Bush’s SCHIP policy violates law, report says

[maddezmom]

Source: The Hill

Bush’s SCHIP policy violates law, report says
By Jeffrey Young
Posted: 04/18/08 02:35 PM
The Bush administration’s limits on expansions of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) are unlawful, according to Congress’s investigative arm.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unlawfully bypassed congressional review when it issued a directive to states in August alerting them that federal authorities would seek to restrict raising the income eligibility level for the program, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded in a report issued Thursday.


The GAO’s findings are consistent with an analysis completed in January by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), another legislative branch agency.

“Both GAO and CRS have now confirmed what so many of us have known for some time, that the administration clearly overstepped its legal authority in issuing the Aug. 17 letter,” said Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who requested the GAO report along with Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine).

Lawmakers have introduced bills to rescind the directive, but Rockefeller and Snowe called for the administration to voluntarily withdraw it.




Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bushs-schip-policy-violates-law-report-says-2008-04-18.html

[sakabatou]

1. And still...

Congress shrugs its shoulders and goes back to work...

[MessiahRp]

2. I dare you to find me a law they haven't broken

I'm pretty sure they've attempted to break them all by now. Just to make sure they got them all in I bet Bush goes out on his last day as President and purposely jaywalks.

A fitting end to a criminal Presidency.

Rp

[grannylib]

3. Exactly what I was going to say..."overstepped authority" is nothing

new with these fuckers.

[Demeter]

5. Even the Law of Gravity, When W Fell on His Face!

Well, at least he tried to break it!

[truthisfreedom]

4. Running roughshod is more like it. bushco is fratboys doing sh*tties in America's front yard.

We used to call it a "lawn job" when high school kids drove through our front yard and tore up everything.

[LynnTheDem]

6. OH MAH GAWD who coulda knowed???!!!

George W. bUsh, LAW-BREAKER???!!

Say it ain't fuckin' so!

Never mind the illegal "supreme crime" invasion, the torture, the spying, the indefinite detentions, the theft, the fraud, the...

[Nickster]

7. What will we tell the children?? Color me shocked, another law broken by the BFEE.

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[tanyev]

9. Only the little people have to follow laws.

[Liberty Belle]

10. President is Rebuffed on Program for Children

Source: New York Times

President Is Rebuffed on Program for Children

New York Times (4/20/08) --The Bush administration violated federal law last year when it restricted states’ ability to provide health insurance to children of middle-income families, and its new policy is therefore unenforceable, lawyers from the Government Accountability Office said Friday.

The ruling strengthens the hand of at least 22 states, including New York and New Jersey, that already provide such coverage or want to do so. And it significantly reduces the chance that the new policy can be put into effect before President Bush leaves office in nine months.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/washington/19health.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

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Why isn't the media asking McCain about healthcare for children? (and the rest of us, for that matter!)

[Faux pas]

11. Wow, some good news for a change! Thanks.

[TomInTib]

12. Program "for" Children, my ass...

Program "against" Children is a much more appropriate header.