Indianapolis, IN

Thu 27 September 2007

So, I’m thinking about S-CHIP. S-CHIP stands for State Children’s Health Insurance Program and is designed for families who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but don’t make enough to be able to buy private insurance. The House passed the bill, with support from both Democrats and Republicans. The Senate is expected to vote for it later this week. However, the President has already said that he plans on vetoing the S-CHIP bill. This is a terrible mistake (I’ve don’t even think I’ve done something that dumb when I was drunk. Don’t forget the time he also vetoed stem-cell research.). Passing the S-CHIP bill would mean that Indiana would get an additional $17 million to go for doing something good for someone else (as opposed to padding your own pockets or destroying other people’s countries). Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) says that S-CHIP will also help to bring everyone else’s health care costs down as well. I just don’t understand how you can veto a bill that would give health coverage to children. I mean, these are the leaders of tomorrow! We’re talking about the children of people who work full time, but their jobs don’t offer them benefits and they don’t pay enough to be able to buy your own (which should be illegal as well). I worked one of those jobs: it was a special education assistant in a middle school. (How is it that in high school they told me with a college degree, I’d make more money? And how is it that when I got my degree, I was only making $8.13/hr working in a “professional” job?) I know what it’s like. And even when we got health coverage from my husband’s job, they still scheisted us out of all our money. Is this just the President’s ploy to keep the poor poor and the rich rich, to help maintain a gap between him (and his rich friends) and the common man? Or is it that he’s a cold-hearted bastard, a modern day Scrooge? I choose C: All of the above.

: S-CHIP, President Bush, vetoing bills, House of Representatives, Senate, Evan Bayh, children’s health care, health coverage, Medicaid