Scarecrow, Firedoglake AlterNet: Health and Wellness. December 26, 2007. While California's funding approach remains uncertain, plans in other states are already blocked by opposition to higher taxes.
Eric Haas, AlterNet. October 29, 2007. Health insurance companies are playing us in a lose-lose game, where we are the exploited and the exploiter together.
Annabelle Gurwitch, TheNation.com. October 19, 2007. One woman argues that she is a lazy, degenerate, breast-bearing freeloader, and her child -- not Graeme Frost -- should be ridiculed by the right-wing media over his kidney condition. Seriously.
Will Durst, AlterNet. October 17, 2007. Bush's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program wasn't "No child left behind" as much as it was "No child left standing."
Joe Brewer, The Rockridge Institute. October 11, 2007. A 12-year-old boy with brain damage is challenging the notion that health care is a privilege only the wealthy deserve.
Eunice Moscoso, Atlanta Journal-Constitution. October 5, 2007. Bush's veto of of a children's health insurance measure could further erode Latino support for the GOP.
Glenn W. Smith, The Rockridge Institute. September 26, 2007. If an elected official cannot muster the courage to explain their anti-SCHIP vote to the children themselves, in a public setting we all can witness, then they must vote for the bill.
Cliff Schecter, AlterNet: PEEK. September 26, 2007. Cliff Schecter: I frankly don't think anyone voting against this can call themselves a human being.
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. September 25, 2007. Perhaps there is nothing that can be done to change the balance of forces within Congress at the moment and, as a result, millions of kids will go without health insurance.
Bill Scher, TomPaine.com. September 18, 2007. Conservatives fear losing the SCHIP debate because if Democrats succeed on health care, they will have a lock on the crucial middle-class vote.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. August 27, 2007. Conservative opposition to giving every child in this country access to health care is, in a fundamental sense, un-American.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. August 11, 2007. If Bush vetoes the SCHIP bill that would expand state health insurance coverage for children, the fallback demand should be: Open up pet health insurance to all American children now!
Carole Joffe, AlterNet. August 6, 2007. Bush's deplorable response to expanding child health care represents more than a fierce opposition to government-provided services.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. August 1, 2007. What kind of philosophy says that it's O.K. to subsidize insurance companies, but not to provide health care to children?
Bill Scher, TomPaine.com. July 26, 2007. The GOP is afraid that good government will undermine their conservative goals, their special interest backers and their own political careers.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. July 26, 2007. Congress is considering bipartisan legislation that will cover poor children in the U.S. The major obstacle? President Bush is vowing to veto the bill.
