Thread: S-CHIP: Here we go again; Update: Roll call vote added

S-CHIP: Here we go again; Update: Roll call vote added
By Michelle Malkin • January 23, 2008 10:56 AM

Update 2:20pm Eastern. Veto override failed. Here’s the roll call vote. H R 3963 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY 23-Jan-2008 12:52 PM
QUESTION: Passage, Objections of the President Not Withstanding
BILL TITLE: Children’s Health Insurance Program Extension and Improvement
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll022.xml



GOP leader Boehner’s statement:

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today expressed disappointment at the Majority’s latest attempt to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to cover illegal immigrants and adults at the expense of low-income children. Boehner voted to sustain the President’s veto of the flawed measure and issued the following statement:

“After two failures to override the President’s vetoes of their flawed SCHIP bill, I hope congressional Democrats finally end the political games that have dominated this debate and work with Republicans to focus on low-income children first. The Majority’s bill would shortchange low-income children and expand SCHIP coverage to illegal immigrants, adults, and those who already have private health insurance. This is particularly irresponsible at a time when our economy is slowing down and American families are feeling the strain from rising costs of living.

“Democrats and Republicans alike established SCHIP a decade ago to ensure our nation’s low-income children have access to high-quality health care. Likewise, just a month ago, both parties overwhelmingly voted to extend SCHIP into 2009 and cover the program’s funding shortfall. Unfortunately, that spirit of cooperation has consistently taken a back seat to the Majority’s ongoing efforts to politicize this issue in order to move more Americans from private insurance to government-run health care. As we have been for the past year, Republicans are ready to work in a bipartisan way to reauthorize SCHIP and keep its focus on low-income children. After this latest failed attempt to enact its flawed legislation, I hope the Majority is finally ready to do the same.â€

You just have to ask yourself WHY does the left want to take people off private insurance and put them on govt. insurance? It's the first foot in the door to National Health Care and the govt taking over the largest economic sector of the nation. The left is determined to make everyone dependent on them and all this circus is to gain votes in the Hispanic sector at the expense of the black community.

They think a socialist system which has failed everywhere it existed can be made a success by them. I often question their sanity. They complain about the deficit and then turn around and spend money like drunken sailors on idiotic programs. You can put a price on VOTES!