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Authors, sign in!Julia Easley, our good friend and partner at Children's Medical Center Dallas, sent the following our way last week after President Bush vetoed the SCHIP legislation. This message comes to us from one of our best hospitals in Dallas. Read on!
Last week, President Bush vetoed the SCHIP Reauthorization Act.Your help is needed again to ask the House of Representatives to override the President's veto.
Background:
Congress must reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) this fall. Called CHIP in Texas, the program insures more than 300,000 low-income children including 43,000 Dallas area children.
The SCHIP Reauthorization Act will provide $35 billion over five years to fund an expansion of SCHIP. An additional four million children are expected to be covered under this bill.Both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate passed the bill by wide, bipartisan majorities last week and sent it to the President. He vetoed the bill.
The next step is for the U.S. House of Representatives to attempt to override the president's veto, which will require a two-thirds majority vote. Our representatives need to hear loud and clear that we want them to pass the bill and override the veto.You can help!
Please take just three minutes to write your member of the U.S. House of Representatives and urge them to override the president's veto and support this vital program for children's health.Here's a simple way to write your members of Congress: Go here.
Follow these steps:
- Click on the link
- Enter your zipcode and click Go
- You will see a prepared message that you can edit if you'd like.
- Add your name at the bottom and enter your contact information
- Under hospital affiliation, choose "TX-Children's Medical Center Dallas" please
- Send your message
Share this with others if you'd like. The choice to participate is yours alone.
If you do participate, thank you for volunteering to speak up for the hospital and the children we serve.For additional information about SCHIP go to www.childrenshospitals.net.
Published October 8, 2007 by Larry James |
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Comments (1)
Recently I sent the following letter to the Fort Worth Star. Burgess is my representative, he is a Bush water boy I am sorry to say.
"I recently signed an online petition supporting the just past and vetoed SCHIP bill. The petition went to my representative, Congressman Michael Burgess. Soon afterwards I received an email response giving the reasons he has for not supporting the bill. One of those reasons is outlined in the following paragraph.
The 1997, the SCHIP bill was a federal-state partnership. The original bill gave each state flexibility on how to fund their programs. Some states made the decision to cover adults or higher income families with limited SCHIP dollars. These states experienced budget shortfalls and returned to the federal government seeking money that had been unspent by states that had run a fiscally sound program, like the State of Texas. Under the current program these states can take money away from Texas children in order to cover adults in their state. This is unfair.
With a little research I found that this new bill actually codifies the removal of adults from the SCHIP program so that concern of the representative is not valid, and he should have known that if he has read the bill.
But what disturbs me the most is his claim that Texas runs a "fiscally sound program." According to the U.S. Census Bureau Texas has 23.9% of its citizens without healthcare.
A quick check of other states and I found that is the highest rate of uninsured citizens, including children in the complete USA. Our Texas program is not "fiscally sound" it is cheap, short sighted, or just plain mean spirited."
Posted by RandyT | October 9, 2007 7:14 PM
Posted on October 9, 2007 19:14