Sunday, November 18, 2007
SCHIP kids
Just so you remember what a glorious legacy George W Bush and his Republican stooges in Congress are leaving in their wake.
Experts say these unorthodox and sometimes desperate responses have become routine in school districts across the country as health care grows more unaffordable for working parents.Is our kids learning? Not on Li'l Georgie's watch. It's Every Child Left Behind because no president wants the youth of his country being smarter than him.
The number of uninsured children age 18 and younger grew by 710,000 to a total of 9.4 million in 2006, according to new research by the Urban Institute. Seventy percent of these newly uninsured children came from families earning more than twice the federal poverty level — that's $41,300 for a family of four.
More than 3 million of these uninsured youngsters would get full health insurance under legislation Congress passed to renew and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program by $35 billion over five years. About 6.6 million children are now covered under the program.
But after watching President Bush twice veto the legislation, citing cost and programmatic concerns, many school officials say the president has misplaced priorities.
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