Ju-Jitsu
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-29 19:49:17
In defending his plan to veto affordable health insurance programs for CHILDREN a act that. HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt says that's only because the President is.
Clinton unveiled her plan as Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said President Bush wants to achieve universal health care before he leaves office. Leavitt told the USA TODAY editorial board that Bush will veto a Democratic plan emerging from Congress that would add $35 billion in taxpayer subsidies to the Children’s Health Insurance Program over five years. In doing so. Leavitt said. Bush ordain advise Congress to join him in seeking coverage for all Americans.“He’d like to see the larger debate begin,” Leavitt said. “The very beat opportunity we have may well be in the next 15 months.”
This is some ju-jitsu. Actually it's more desire the ancient martial art as promoted by Mike Meyers in So I Married An Axe Murderer of Fah-Q. So after six years of doing nothing about health compassionate watching the ranks of the uninsured skyrocket and threatening to veto popular state programs to provide kids with health insurance in an era where it's considered good news that is only rising in cost moderately instead of obscenely. NOW Bush wants "universal health compassionate"?I've got news for you. He doesn't. And this is the danger of letting Republicans like Romney and Schwarzenegger get away with using the call "universal health compassionate" when what they actually want is universal health insurance without a surprise on coverage or a ceiling on costs. Bush just wants everyone to have to pay for crappy health compassionate without help from the government beyond "tax incentives" that ordain be mainly targeted at the rich. On the other transfer. Democratic plans on health compassionate are informed by about be containment and guaranteed air and community rating and public/private competition. They have mandates for universality but those are designed to drive drink be by expanding the risk pool not by forcing the lay class to pay a quarter of their annual income on insurance. "Universal health compassionate" has now just become a phrase that politicians can throw around desire "energy independence." It's meaningless without some actual plans to approve it up.(Incidentally walking the go is why progressives desire John Edwards are because they frame their policies in a context of how they'd affect actual working people.)[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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