BUSH VETOES CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE FUNDING

So Bush has vetoed the Children's Health Insurance Program because he claims it would take children off private insurance rolls and put them on government ones. Oh yeah, sure! This is pure Bush fantasy. Bush says that sick kids who can't afford insurance and who won't qualify for his plan limiting the CHIP program to the poorest of poor kids could just go to the emergency rooms at hospitals for their medical needs.

This is the meanest and most heartless Bush action ever. Let kids go to emergency rooms? Has Bush himself ever gone to a hospital's emergency room for care, or taken his kids to one? Obvioulsly not. Solely on the basis of some antiquated and uncaring conservative political ideological bias, Bush does not want government to insure poor kids. So he vetoes a program agreed upon by both Republicans and Democrats as necessary for children's health in America.

Do Bush supporters really think they can support this mean denial of medical insurance for America's needy children?