New Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Children's Health Program

[ehrnst]

An overwhelming majority of Americans strongly support continuing and expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), but a lesser number would favor an attempt to override President Bush's veto of Congress' bill, according to a new poll.

Congress passed a bill to expand SCHIP, which provides health care to millions of poor children, which was vetoed by Bush last month. Lawmakers will take up the issue again as early as Thursday.

The new survey by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health shows 70 percent of those polled support adding $35 billion to the health care program over five years. A slightly smaller majority, though, 64 percent, favor overriding the president's veto of the bill.


http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/pomr101707pkg.cfm

[Benhurst]

1. Who cares what the American people think?

Such thinking is so pre-9/11.

BushAmerica

:patriot:

Billions For Bombs
Not One Cent For Health Care