Bush Vetos Health Care for Poor Kids in Secret Ceremony

Working behind closed doors is the standard operating procedure for the Bush Administration. The only time you see Bush or Cheney is in a staged press photo opportunity or a carefully controlled press conference. No surprise then that Bush vetoed the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan in secret.

You see, health care for lower or middle income children is just not a priority for Bush. As an employee of the businesses in the war industry, healthy kids just don’t get much attention. I guess if there had been a provision for purchasing more V-22 Osprey aircraft (that’s the one that falls from the sky so often) it might have passed. No guns or bullets, and no signature with this administration.

Bush justifies his despicable actions with the specter of “Socialized Medicine”. We are supposed to cower in the corner and clutch our insurance cards and quake in fear when we hear those words. In reality millions of American’s cannot get health insurance, while the rich get untaxed benefits of lavish health plans and the President and Congress get their health care on our dime. SCHIP would assure insurance for mostly children, from families that earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford their own private coverage. The problem with that? Well private insurance companies might miss out on a few more bucks in their coffers from these marginalized groups, and God forbid we deprive big business of profits!

So, in the secrecy that Bush is so comfortable in, he makes a stroke of a pen and kids will be sick or die without health care. And Bush sleeps well at night knowing he has rescued the Insurance Lobby from a slight down turn in profits. Thanks Mr. President, for nothing!