Having spent several weeks trying to find affordable health insurance for myself, I understand exactly how hard it is to find it for kids, especially if you are a family with a low income. Having health insurance means the difference between living and dying for some children and right now President Bush has decided, (he is the Decider you know) that the kids are just not worth it. He has threatened to veto the bill that would extend and expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program, a federal/state program that subsidies insurance for low-income families kids.
This bill has bipartisan support, yet Bush, the tool of the insurance companies and any other big business who has bucks, wants to veto it. If he does, money will run out for many kids and that will directly affect their health and possibly their lives. Sad to say in this country if you have money you live and if you are poor you die, it’s that simple.
Don’t believe me? Well I have a friend who is struggling with liver failure right now. Because he is indigent, he is last on the list for a transplant, and the doctors are just treating his symptoms, not the cause of the problem. Why? He doesn’t have health insurance, so they are treating him on the cheap. I fear the result may be his eventual demise before a transplant becomes available. If he was rich, he would be at the top of the list.
So go on Mr. Decider, veto that bill and watch some poor kids die for lack of affordable health care. It won’t bother you, since you have the best government sponsored health care money can buy. Secure you legacy as a tough guy who never gave in to a Democratically controlled Congress. You will be securing your legacy as the most heartless bastard in the world as well. Of course that won’t bother you, you already have sent thousands of Americans to their deaths fighting your oil war and boosting the profits of companies like Blackwater and Halliburton. How do you sleep at night Mr. Bush?
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