Ill Will: Bush Vetoes Children’s Health Bill
3rd October 2007
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Shunning the wishes of the majority of the public and snubbing members of his own party who support ensuring that millions of America's children will have access to health care, President Bush today vetoed the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) renewal bill.
Bush refused to listen to many leading Republican lawmakers who joined with nearly every Democrat in the House and Senate who voted to reauthorize the program.
The president ignored the 4 million additional children who would be eligible for health care coverage under the reauthorization—joining the 6.6 million already enrolled.
He disregarded the 81 percent of Democrats, 69 percent of independents and 61 percent of Republicans who told an ABC News-Washington Post poll they support the $35 billion increase in the bill so more children get health coverage.
He vetoed the children's health bill two days after he declared Oct. 1 as Child Health Day.