Comments on: Democrats Push Through Kids Health Plan

Bill Would Give Coverage To 6 Million Children; Faces Bush Veto Threat

[mcapek]

You want government paid care, UNTIL you find out what exactly you will be getting: something very close to the Veterans Administration horror show; and something close to Medicare and Medicaid (which is already a health care plan funded by
the government, but which government cannot afford, so they pay poorly and continously introduce cuts on payments, trying to stop the hemorrhaging), at that point you will find out that NO doctors are interested in taking on new Medicare/Medicaid patients, since they are a money LOOSING proposition. Nobody wants to loose money or work for free. It just does not work.
I don't see malpractice insurance costs going down, or medical supply costs going down, or healthcare personnel costs going down, so how do you propose to keep this scheme afloat?

[middleman8]

All the Bush familys have lived on and drawn unversal health care ( government paid) all their lives.Yet he would spend a TRILLION dollars destroying and killing before letting some poor children get proper treatment..HOW LONG ARE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GOING TO STAND FOR THIS?
IT'S GETTING WORSE THAN A BANNANA REPUPLIC, AND BUSH HAD SUDDAM HUNG..GO FIGURE.

[randalds]

"President Bush and his allies contend the bills goes too far. They say the legislation is a slippery slope toward a universal health care plan, reports CBS News correspondent Thalia Assuras."

What the chimp does not get is that Americans WANT Universal Health Care! It's the only way to stop the obscenely high cost of health care and prescriptions in this country and the equally obscene profits of the private insurers. Big Business has proven that it can't be trusted with the health of American citizens, because they care only for profits and not for health. It's time America stopped being the only modern western nation where health care is seen as benefit only for those who can afford it and is seen as a basic RIGHT for all citizens, as it should be!

[hrb8113601]

I cannot believe as human being anybody would be against this bill

[randalds]

Posted by LgnSqDn at 10:16 PM : Aug 01, 2007

He does not care and he never did. His "man of the people" routine is as phony as his Texas "ranch" that Rove had him build when he decided to run for president because Rove told him it would remind people of Reagan. Bush plays a common rancher, but in fact is the scion of an extremely wealthy family who was born in Connecticut (not Texas) and attending nothing but East Coast elite schools. His grandfather, Prescott, was one of the wealthiest men in Texas, even though he lived most of his life back East and did much of his business with Adolph Hitler and the Nazis. He (along with curiously enough Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh) was a supporter of Hitler right up until the declaration of war. Bush is an elitist internationalist. He does not care about America or Americans, only money and power.

[micma-2009]

Bush would rather spend a trillion dollars making his buddies rich in Iraq than to spend far less to assure that children in this country have basic healthcare.

In the Neocon mentality there's always enough money for war but never enough to take care of our own.

[panda1324]

husband has regular Medicare and its about time they lowered HMO's And its great to be able to insure more children and I am not against Universal healthcare. I can't affford extra Insurance to help with the 20% because premiums are to high. Yea Democrats

[lgnsqdn]

I cannot believe that Pres. Bush would even consider vetoing a bill regarding the health care for poor children. Where is his compassion? It is an bad day in America when the President of the United States cares little or nothing for poor children. What kind of individual is he? I hesitate to guess.

[randalds]

Come on you elitist SOB! Show America how you really feel about those that are "beneath" you and your rich bit*ch mother! Maybe get her to sit in at the veto signing so she can tell all the people you've driven into poverty how much better off they are living in shelters!

[randalds]

Come on Bush! Show your true colors! Veto health care for poor children!

[petesis]

Make him Veto it. Go Democrats. Shove it right up his a$$$$.

[gkc99]

"Why just raise fee,s on cigarettes? "

They should make cigarettes cost as much as pot. It causes 100 times more damage.

That would pay for health care. Like Repubs care about anybody except themselves.

[strewthmate]

"President Bush and his allies contend the bills goes too far. They say the legislation is a slippery slope toward a universal health care plan"

... slippery slope? Nah, more like a start towards what is desperately needed... a universal health care plan. Go see 'Sicko'.

[nothappyatall]

"The rest of the increase would be financed by a 45-cent-per-pack cigarette tax increase."

Yeah right, and when they keep piling on MORE taxes to cigarettes what will they do when people stop smoking and all that counted on money they added to the budget to pay for all these nice programs simply vanishes?

"It's really disgusting that Emperor Bush and the Republicans would deny health care to millions of children, but would give millionares dozens of tax breaks. He and the neocons want billions to fight a war heading nowhere, but refuses to bring the troops home" walt1944

BINGO, now you have woken up and smelt the coffee like so many of us did 4 years ago with BUSH. Blajme the RIGT WING CHRISTIANS for putting THIS krap in power TWICE, this is the kind of President you get in when you allow religion to be involved. He only got in because of his anti g@y and anto abortion campaigns.

[fizzal-2009]

Why just raise fee,s on cigarettes? How about rocknroll records too. When they play them loud it affects their hearing.

[walt1944-2009]

It's really disgusting that Emperor Bush and the Republicans would deny health care to millions of children, but would give millionares dozens of tax breaks. He and the neocons want billions to fight a war heading nowhere, but refuses to bring the troops home.

Shows us all what Bush and the neocon Republicans think of the poor and the average man.

[pepperp1]

No but they have no problem spending 1 Trillion of our tax dollars on a country a little larger than NJ called Iraq.

Tax cut for all above the poverty level a flat 15 percent like the Equity Barons receive today. Too much discrepancy spending in Washington like honey attracting all the kooks and crooks.