Mike Leavitt (Secretary of DHHS) says there are 1.7 million uninsured
kids; a study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation says there are 8.4
million uninsured children, most of whom would be eligible for SCHIIP
coverage. I think I know whose figures I trust!
http://www.rwjf.org/files/newsroom/ckfresearchreportfinal.pdf

Bush: No Deal On Children's Health Plan

By Christopher Lee
President Bush yesterday rejected entreaties by his Republican allies
that he compromise with Democrats on legislation to renew a popular
program that provides health coverage to poor children, saying that
expanding the program would enlarge the role of the federal government
at the expense of pr...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/18/AR2007071801434.html?referrer=emailarticle




Bush Addresses Health Care Policy

By Christopher Lee
Q: You mentioned your tax proposals. You mentioned the children's
health insurance debate. You talked about not wanting that program to
expand, not wanting to see an expansion of government. I'm told that
only about 10 percent of the children on that program are above 200
percent of poverty.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/19/AR2007071901013.html?referrer=emailarticle

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as
much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every
year?
Peter Ustinov

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Kendall

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

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