by Bill Scher | Oct 3, 2007 | Blog
In These Times and ThinkProgress had already taken the White House to task for pushing the lie that the SCHIP bill would raise the income eligibility limit to families earning $83,000 a year. Of course, Bush is still saying it: "this program expands coverage, federal...
by Bill Scher | Oct 3, 2007 | Blog
Perhaps the only thing going for conservatives in the SCHIP debate is complete journalistic incompetence from the Washington media. Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball just asserted that the SCHIP bill isn't paid for and doesn't include a raise in tobacco taxes. He...
by Bill Scher | Oct 3, 2007 | Blog
This morning, President Bush stood for bad government, insurance companies and cheaper tobacco and vetoed expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program to cover 10 million kids. In the words of the White House, the plan was to "veto it quietly," so not to...
by Bill Scher | Oct 2, 2007 | Blog
Public pressure continues to build on House members that voted against expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Today, Tulsa World reports that conservative "Bush Dog" Democrat Rep. Dan Boren (Okla.) will drop his opposition and support an override of...
by Bill Scher | Oct 1, 2007 | Blog
Kudos to Rebecca from Saint Paul! She submitted one of our proposed State Children's Health Insurance Program questions to "Ask The White House:" SCHIP has succeeded in cutting the rate of uninsured children, while the rate of uninsured adults has gone up. But we...
