Spitzer to Sue Bush for Gutting Children's Health Care

Posted by Matt Stoller at 5:24 AM on August 30, 2007.

This post, written by Matt Stoller, originally appeared on Open Left

Eliot Spitzer, after weathering a rather nast right-wing smear attempt over the past month, is now threatening to sue the Bush administration if Bush goes ahead with his SCHIP strategy and cuts health care to kids in New York state. Spitzer is doing an event tomorrow with Hillary Clinton, which will be webcast today at 10:30am.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out, and I will say that Spitzer actually knows how to fight.

But the new rules include what Mr. Spitzer called "poison pill" requirements that he said would effectively kill New York's and others states' plans.

"If they come back to us and refuse to budge from the positions they've taken, then we will sue," he said.

Suing the Bush administration to protect the health coverage of poor children? Now that's the Eliot Spitzer we all know and love.

Tagged as: children, health care, bush, new york, spitzer

Matt Stoller is a political activist/blogger in DC, and was an editor at MyDD from November 2005 until June 2007. He also consults for the Sunlight Foundation, FreePress.net, and Working Assets as well as proactively networking other progressive bloggers/internet activists and progressive professionals.