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WaPo claims to provide the answer in the last quote box in my preceding post...
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Q: Who would be covered under the bill approved by Congress and vetoed by President Bush?
A: Under the bill, states could receive the full federal matching rate to cover children from families earning as much as three times the poverty level,
or $61,950 for a family of four
. States seeking to cover families with higher incomes would receive a less favorable federal matching rate. In either case, states would have to receive approval from the Bush administration to raise their eligibility levels that high.
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...and ace....two weeks after the accusation in the following quote box, POS Bush is on record, distorting his reason for vetoing the bill, exactly as described (predicted ???) ....below:
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200710...fset=20&show=1
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They also didn't mention that this already is a compromise designed to get the GOP on board. The House bill wanted $50B for SCHIP and funded it in part with adjustments to the wholly unnecessary Medicare Advantage boondoggle.
* - eRobin / Wednesday October 3, 2007 09:59:01 PM EST
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The administration talking point that, the expansion of this program will allow families who make over 80,000 to receive SCHIP is an outright lie. I fail to see why the press doesn't call them on this. The SCHIP program gives states the ability to set income limits on coverage. THe 83,000 figure came from New York states proposal to increase the ceiling to 400% of poverty level. That proposal was dismissed by the administration and now they try to use it in a disingenious attempt to make us believe that such a figure will be the norm. Lies, lies, lies. But of course, to hear Bush, it is the Democrats fault that children will be shortchanged needed healthcare because they want to increase funding for the program. Huh????????? January 2009 cannot get her quick enough. This man, Bush, the chicken hawk coward, needs to disappear into obscurity in the brush piles of his sucky ranch.
* - achrispage6992 / Thursday October 4, 2007 07:56:21
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...and Bush distorted, on Sept. 20, and yesterday:
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea.../20071017.html
.....Q You talked about sprinting to the finish, and then you also, just a moment ago, sounded a bit resigned to the fact that if legislators don't move there's not much you can do. So --
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I'm doing it right now, see -- not to interrupt you -- but it's called the bully pulpit. And I hope to get your -- I was trying to get your attention focused on the fact that major pieces of legislation aren't moving, and those that are, are at a snail's pace. And I hope I did that. I hope I was able to accomplish that.
Q One on veterans, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Go ahead -- he hasn't asked his question. I rudely interrupted him.
Q Do you feel as if you're -- do you feel as if you're losing leverage, and that you're becoming increasingly irrelevant? And what can you do about that to --
THE PRESIDENT: Quite the contrary. I've never felt more engaged and more capable of helping people recognize -- American people recognize that there's a lot of unfinished business. And I'm really looking forward to the next 15 months. I'm looking forward to getting some things done for the American people. And if it doesn't get done, I'm looking forward to reminding people as to why it's not getting done.
But I'm confident we can get positive things done. I mean, you shouldn't view this as somebody who says, well, this is impossible for Congress and the President to work together; quite the contrary. I just named some areas where we have worked together. And we're going to have to work together. We have to make sure our troops get the money they need. We have to make sure America is protected.
Having said that, I'm not going to accept a lousy bill, and the American people don't want there to be a lousy bill on this issue. The American people want to know that our professionals have the tools necessary to defend them. See, they understand al Qaeda and terrorism is still a threat to the security of this country. In other words, they're still out there, and they're still plotting and planning. And it's in our interest to have the tools necessary to protect the American people. It's our most solemn duty.
So there's a lot of areas where we can work together. This just happens to be a period of time when not much is happening. And my job is to see if I can't get some of that movement in the right direction, and at the same time, make sure that we're part of the process. And one way the executive branch stays a part of the process is to issue veto threats and then follow through with them. And so that's what you're going to see tomorrow, as to whether or not the Congress will sustain my veto on a bill that I said I would veto, and explained why I'm vetoing it.
And again, I want to repeat it so the American people clearly understand: One, there are half a million children who are eligible under this program but aren't being covered today; two, states are spending -- some states are spending more money on adults than children. That doesn't make any sense if you're trying to help poor children.
By the way, in Medicaid, we spend about $35 billion a year on poor children. So if somebody is listening out there saying, well, they don't care about poor children, they ought to look at the size -- the amount of money we're spending under Medicaid for poor children.
<h3>And finally, to increase eligibility up to $83,000, in my judgment, is an attempt by some in Congress to expand the reach of the federal government in medicine.</h3> And I believe strongly in private medicine. Now, I think the federal government ought to help those who are poor, and it's one of the reasons why I work so hard on Medicare reform, is to make sure that we fulfill our promise to the elderly. But I don't like plans that move people from -- encourage people to move from private medicine to the public. And that's what's happening under this bill. And so I'm looking forward to working with the Congress to make sure the bill does what it's supposed to do.
Listen, thank you all for your time. I enjoyed it.
THE END 11:32 A.M. EDT
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...one thing about our failed president....he says what he means...and, if his lips are movin'.....you can bet he's......
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