This week I read an article in the Los Angeles Times about the Democrats’ attempt to push a children’s healthcare plan through congress. Recently Bush vetoed such a plan, which brought much objection. A coalition seeks to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which was created for the poor. In order to override Bush’s veto, the coalition would need to convince House Republicans to pass it because it needs 2/3 majority. The new bill would expand SCHIP to cover more uninsured children in mostly low income families but also in some middle class families. Republicans who object say that the bill goes too far because it would offer government assistance to people who could already afford private coverage. This is just an issue that Democrats are pushing for while Republicans choose to ignore it.
I think that it is a good idea for the government to implement some form of health care for children of low income families. It would be expensive and impractical, however, to make the plan include health care for children who could already previously afford it. This addition to the bill would only make it harder to pass through Congress, so I don’t know why it is being pushed.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-kidshealth15oct15,1,852350.story?coll=la-news-politics-national
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I think a children's health care plan is much more practical than any universal health care plan. I agree with you about not extending the plan to those who can already afford it. We should be directly all the funding of this program to low income families whose children would be completely without insurance. I think that this would make the bill easier to pass, because it's more discriminating. Hopefully they will keep pushing this issue, tweaking if necessary so that it passes.
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