Wednesday, August 1, 2007
The debate: Children's healthcare

A topic of much discussion lately is children's healthcare in the United States. The Senate has been debating expansion of the health insurance programs for children for some time now. The commotion has been stirring because the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is due to be reauthorized in September of 2007.

The only thing I don't understand is how this issue could have ever been debatable in the first place. Something like this should be an absolute, hands-down given.

According to an article in The New York times the argument against a reauthorization of SCHIP is because "some Republicans in Congress said they saw these efforts as a stalking-horse for government-run health care, national health insurance and socialized medicine."

What!? I don't care what you have to socialize, if a child has special needs and requires healthcare and/or extra healthcare they should not be denied. As adults we are responsible for people who are underage. You might as well say no one should give blood anymore!

Oh I'm sorry President Bush your future grandchild can't be treated at this hospital for her asthma, she doesn't have the proper insurance. Wait...of course...someone with political power would never have to deal with such a scary situation.

Hmm..I guess since he can't, and would never be elected again, it's okay for him to threaten to veto the reissue of this program.

As for the graph, it is very positive to see that the number of uninsured children has dramatically dropped. But please note the vertical axis is counted in millions. MILLIONS. This means there are still more than 8 million children who are uninsured and that is just the number based on a census.

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