My Challenge to the President -by Senator Edward M Kennedy

[kpete]

My Challenge to the President
by Senator Edward M Kennedy
Wed Oct 03, 2007 at 11:05:38 AM PDT

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He says the bill costs too much. But for the price of one day in Iraq, we could cover 256,000 children. One week would cover 1.8 million children. And just over one month of the Iraq war would cover the full cost of the bill and insure 10 million children for a whole year.

Because the current SCHIP program falls far short of meeting the need, hundreds of thousands of children have lost their coverage on President Bush's watch. It's incomprehensible that the President would threaten to veto legislation that corrects this serious problem.

There's one thing President Bush and I do have in common, though - American taxpayers cover 72% of our health care premiums, because current law has long-permitted good insurance coverage for federal employees.

So I ask President Bush and the Members in Congress who support his veto:

Would you deny your own family what you'll be denying to millions of other families if this bill is vetoed? If you don't believe the federal government should support children's health care, how can you in good conscience accept it for your own families?

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/3/135022/007

[gateley]

1. He's so inspirational and wise. He's grown so much over his career -- and despite

the trappings of privilege and wealth, is a sincere, caring humanitarian. (Now if I can just get him to endorse Biden! :7)

[Fearless]

2. K&R