Chipping Away At Health Care

Providing healthcare for all children, in the "Greatest Nation on Earth"...
isn't really an 'option', it's a moral imperative...Texas lost federal money for healthcare under GW Bush due to an 'administrative failure' regarding paperwork due at the Federal level. A system that takes the taxes, awards them back to states tagged for healthcare, then recinds them is capricious of benefit to no one. While administrative 'red tape' is blamed, real people, children are effected in serious ways. Click the main title for the complete article. (rw)

Chipping Away At Health Care


It would be one thing to cut child health insurance funding if the money wasn't there. But the Bush administration just allowed $1 billion in federal funds already allocated to pay for health care for uninsured children return to the treasury. And on the campaign trail, the president has been using concern for uninsured families as a talking point when playing up his "health savings accounts"—though they'd be virtually useless for poor families. Rachel Klein of Families USA says the actions and the words just don't match up.
Rachel Klein is deputy director of health policy for Families USA, a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans.
Uninsured Americans are a popular political football this fall. In the limelight of the Republican National Convention this summer, President Bush made lofty promises about expanding health insurance coverage for uninsured children. But, despite the president’s rhetoric about his concern for uninsured children, he stands in the way of efforts to help them. With much less fanfare than his statements at the Convention, the Bush administration recently withdrew more than $1 billion that were earmarked for children