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Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
Friday, October 12, 2007

Look at the big picture about the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

President Bush vetoed the SCHIP bill simply because it is bad legislation, for so many reasons: It doesn't make poor children a priority because it also covers adults; it undermines private insurance; it sets the nation on the path to socialized medicine; and it feeds yet further an already-bloated government.

Democrats are trying to make Republicans out to be cold-hearted kid haters when, in fact, the bill would extend medical aid for the working poor to families earning $80,000. Do families making $80,000 really need government health insurance?

That's worse than ridiculous; it's blatantly reckless to expand long-term government spending at a time when the federal budget already is headed for a disaster as boomers retire. And Democrats are hiding behind kids to see this SCHIP bill passed.

A better way to take care of future generations would be to stop robbing them now to pay for overinflated vote-buying programs.

From the Friday, October 12, 2007 edition of the Augusta Chronicle
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