Republican Leaders Fight Expansion of Children’s Health Insurance
July 27, 2007
Republican leaders of the House and Senate on Tuesday attacked proposals that call for a major expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, to be financed with higher tobacco taxes.
In a letter to colleagues, Republican Senators Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell said that the plan “imposes an open-ended financial burden on American taxpayers and takes a significant step toward a government-run health care system.”
Mr. McConnell said other Republican senators were concerned about “the size of the plan that came out of the Finance Committee and what that may portend for the future in terms of an entire government takeover of American health care and, in essence, a single-payer system down the road.” [information via New York Times]
I am a smoker. I can say now that I would not mind higher tobacco taxes knowing that It was funding a health plan that ensures ALL of America’s children have health insurance. It is a RIGHT, not a privledge.
And as far as the Republican’s concenrs that this will lead us to a government run or “single payer” universal health care system, just go see Michael Moore’s new film Sicko. Then try and tell me that it is NOT the right direction we, as a country, should head.
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