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Bush Vetoes Children's Health Care Bill

Posted by: njensen
Date: Wed, 2007-10-17 21:29

On October 2, President Bush vetoes a health care bill that would have provided health care to more than 10 million children in the United States. On what basis does Bush tell us (CNN)? "I believe in private medicine, not the federal government running the health care system," Bush said after vetoing the bill. He said the government's policy should be to help people find private insurance.

So, Bush only supports children being healthy if they are rich, or if someone is going to profit from their ailments. The United States is the ONLY industrialized nation that views health care as a commodity and not a human right. Children that were born into poverty did nothing to deserve their impoverished lives, and thusly there is no basis on which to discriminate against them: ESPECIALLY DEPRIVING THEM OF PROPER HEALTH CARE. Why don't they deserve the chance to be healthy? What happened to America being the land of opportunity? It seems to me that kids who have no health care do not have the opportunity to be successful in life. Their primary concern is probably not dying. And Bush calls himself a compassionate conservative. Ya, right.

There is some major problems with this country, and this is one of the primary examples of how screwed up the US actually is.

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