Bush prevents States from giving healthcare to kids :(

Something about not wanting to compete with private insurance!!! He's truely SICK!



From the NY Times:

"The Bush administration, continuing its fight to stop states from expanding the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, has adopted new standards that would make it much more difficult for New York, California and others to extend coverage to children in middle-income families.

Administration officials outlined the new standards in a letter sent to state health officials on Friday evening, in the middle of a month-long Congressional recess. In interviews, they said the changes were aimed at returning the Children’s Health Insurance Program to its original focus on low-income children and to make sure the program did not become a substitute for private health coverage."

Forget that many middle class families are struggling, foreclosures are at an all time high and that medical bills are the reason for most of the bankruptcy claims :(

not to mention the whole let the States decide, keep government local that the conservatives like to chant.. doesn't work when the national interests of the insurance companies is at stake.. Hypocrates!