Rockefeller, Rahall denounce Bush’s CHIP veto
2007-10-04
Source: The Register-Herald
Sad day. Angry. Mystified. And above all, disappointed.
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rss feedThat was the reaction on Capitol Hill among West Virginia's congressional delegation when President Bush made good his threat to veto a bipartisan measure aimed at pumping more dollars into the Children’s Health Insurance Plan and taking more folks into the program.
That, in essence, was the heart of the Bush veto - too many families enrolled in private insurance would be tempted to get into CHIP, which the president maintained should be open exclusively to the poorest children.
Not buying that argument was Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., who has vowed to lead a fight in the Senate to override the veto.
"The reality is that the 90 percent of kids currently enrolled in CHIP are in families making $41,300 or less a year - that's 200 percent of poverty," Rockefeller fired back in a statement from his office.
"These same families cannot afford private health insurance."
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