Children’s Health.
A few weeks ago, I read an article stating that President Bush had vetoed a bill that would expand the children insurance bill on grounds that it would be too expensive - the bill “proposed [a] five-year expansion and $35 billion spending increase” and Bush only wanted the program to be increased by $5 billion. While it would have been a very expensive increase, it is an increase that would have been financed by a 61-cent increase in the federal excise tax on a pack of cigarettes so it’s not like the government hasn’t found a way to finance such a large increase and in my opinion, with the amount of people that shell out $30+ for a carton of cigarettes or however much it is for a pack of cigarettes every week we would not be hurting for the money!
What irritates me about the fact that this bill was vetoed on grounds of being “too expensive” is the fact that it sends me the message that insuring our youngest citizens is too costly and thus should not take place. Hell, I’m a 21 year old college student and if it weren’t for my dad having been in the military since the time he was 18, I would not have insurance at this point. It is important that the youngest children are insured because doctor visits in general are costly and most of us know that in the younger years you have to make many trips to the doctors just for regular checkups and for things like vacancies. It is really sad that our President has decided to veto such a bill that would expand the coverage of insurance on children on grounds of it being too expensive…I hope that the bill the House has revised does not get vetoed!
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