IMO., the General Fund thing is wrong--I say a separate account for the SCHIP and then we would be sure where the money goes.

I thought I said this before. Oh well, Rudy needs to get more informed on the subject.


If Rudy Giuliani wants Americans to be afraid of socialized medicine, he might want to hire someone to check his facts.

In a radio advertisement released last week in New Hampshire, Giuliani said, "I had prostate cancer, five, six years ago. My chances of surviving prostate cancer -- and thank God I was cured of it -- in the United States: 82 percent. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England: only 44 percent under socialized medicine."


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82 percent. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England: only 44 percent under socialized medicine."

Yea, with health insurance he can make that claim. What about the folks who can't afford the tests?

Yet another veto of the bill that most thought there was a compromise on. Are you surprised? I thought not.


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush vetoed an expansion of the federally funded, state-run health insurance program for poor children for a second time Wednesday, telling Congress the bill "moves our country's health care system in the wrong direction."

"Because the Congress has chosen to send me an essentially identical bill that has the same problems as the flawed bill I previously vetoed, I must veto this legislation, too," he said in a statement released by the White House.

The bill would have expanded the State Children's Health Insurance Program by nearly $35 billion over five years, the same as the measure Bush vetoed October 3.


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I'm sure the vote on this bill and those that oppose it will become cannon fodder in the next election.