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Health: House Votes to Expand Coverage for Children
January 15th, 2009With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) proclaiming that “40 days in Iraq equals one year of insurance for 10 million children,” the House overwhelmingly passed a bill that expands health care coverage to 4 million more low-income children and maintains coverage for 7 million now enrolled. If approved in the Senate today, the plan will cost $32 billion over 4 ½ years, paid for in part by raising taxes by 61 cents on a pack of cigarettes to $1. President-elect Barack Obama, who made health care a priority during his run for the White House, said it will be among the first bills he signs. The plan is “not just good economic policy, but a moral obligation we hold as parents and citizens,” he said. The bill passed 289 to 139, with 40 Republicans in support. Democrats say that the bill is just a small part of the more comprehensive health care plan.
THANK YOU LORD !! EVERY CHILD NEEDS THIS COVERAGE!!
I agree. A country that ignores the health care needs of it’s children is a pitiful country. People matter more than money!
Health care for every child? Really! Is Congress aware of how many Americans do not have the ability to get to a doctor or do not have doctors in their area?
20 to 40 miles north of Dayton Ohio, medical specialists are not available to the locals. A trip to the doctor may be a 90 mile or more round trip. I once traveled 240 miles to see a specialist.
There is a community where the locals had such inadequate health care professionals, when they were told to go to the local hospital they planned their funeral. Those that went in, did not come out.
Gasoline prices are higher in rural communities and the locals have to travel further distances to get services. There is NO public transportation, AND no side walks. To avoid the health care professionals in a badly run area, families saved money for the transportation to go to other communities with better doctoring.
Even going to the Social Security department could be as much as a forty to fifty mile round trip.
Now Congress is considering charging more money for a health care program that only those rich or those living in the city can effectively utilize.
Why should rural people, who can’t get to the doctor, pay for the folks in the city to go to the doctor?
In the city, the health facilities give the poor and sick money for bus fare, which they receive from tax dollars.
If the government is going to charge ALL Americans money for healthcare, than the government is going to have to provide ALL Americans access to quality doctors and medical facilities. Rural folk don’t want to pay for a health insurance they can’t use.
To marie it sounds like you need to move your azz to the city and quit whinning. come out of them there sticks and join civilization. come where there’s inside toilets and running water and shyt………