Bush halts extending children's health care to middle income families

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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration Friday rejected New York State’s effort to expand a popular children’s health care program with the eventual goal of insuring every child in the state.

The decision stymies the expansion of the state’s Child Health Plus Program and denies its benefits to 70,000 middle-income children statewide. State officials had hoped to start enrolling those children in the program this month.

In a letter explaining the decision, Kerry Weems, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the New York proposal threatened to distract from the program’s central mission: insuring poor children.

“New York has not demonstrated that its program operates in an effective and efficient manner with respect to the core population of targeted low-income children,” said Weems.

While expected, the decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provoked outrage from Gov. Eliot L. S...
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[Dumbfounded]

"No child left behind. Except for middle class and poor children."

So children are sent off to a cash war to lose limbs, die, many of them returning to the states and don't receive the full V.A. health benefits they're due.

Now 70,000 children are denied health care

And schools have NOT met the "no child left behind" goals. Teachers have had to buy supplies with their OWN money.


But Bush loves kids. Remember when he read "My Pet Goat" to a bunch of schoolchildren while the country was under attack?

Now THAT'S what I call devotion to the health and welfare of kids and anyone that says Bush doesn't love children is a liar, an Islamofascist and a threat to the security of America.

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"No child left behind. Except for middle class and poor children."

So children are sent off to a cash war to lose limbs, die, many of them returning to the states and don't receive the full V.A. health benefits they're due.

Now 70,000 children are denied health care

And schools have NOT met the "no child left behind" goals. Teachers have had to buy supplies with their OWN money.


But Bush loves kids. Remember when he read "My Pet Goat" to a bunch of schoolchildren while the country was under attack?

Now THAT'S what I call devotion to the health and welfare of kids and anyone that says Bush doesn't love children is a liar, an Islamofascist and a threat to the security of America.

A couple of points if I may:
1) Why should the taxpayer be providing insurance to children in the first place. If you can't afford to take care of a child, don't have one. My wife and I would love to have a child, but we can't afford to so we are waiting until we can. Before, someone say, what about thoses that happen to get pregnent? Things happen, and if that happened with us we would make due thru personal decisions, not hand out from you and you friends.

2) No one in this country is ever denied health care. The opposite is true. A publicly funded hospital or any hospital receiving any kind of public funds can not turn someone away. If is against the law. So once again, healthcare is not being denied.

3) If teachers are having to buy supplies then instead of asking for more money, they should be asking where is the money goind. On average, a school receives $11,000 per student. This money is supposed to pay for supplies, salaries, trips, etc. Not for operating expenses. For a class of 20 at $11,000 per student, that comes out to be $220,000 per classroom. That is a whole lot of money that is being spent somewhere.
Test scores are not going up, but we keep spending more money. When does the money train stop.

4) It only took you until the 4th item to show your true colors. That would be the wonderful argument of name calling. Typical, if you don't like something or someone, lets call them names. I would guess that you are a liberal supporter and are all for being inclusive and nice except for when it goes against what you believe. Then we can be mean and un-civil.

[Enough]

"No child left behind. Except for middle class and poor children."

So children are sent off to a cash war to lose limbs, die, many of them returning to the states and don't receive the full V.A. health benefits they're due.

Now 70,000 children are denied health care

And schools have NOT met the "no child left behind" goals. Teachers have had to buy supplies with their OWN money.


But Bush loves kids. Remember when he read "My Pet Goat" to a bunch of schoolchildren while the country was under attack?

Now THAT'S what I call devotion to the health and welfare of kids and anyone that says Bush doesn't love children is a liar, an Islamofascist and a threat to the security of America.
If you think "it takes a village", go find another village.
This one pays too much already!!!!!!