Bush Vetoes Health Insurance For Children

From Paul Krugman’s column, reprinted in full over at Common Dreams:

Being without health insurance is no big deal. Just ask President Bush. “I mean, people have access to health care in America,” he said last week. “After all, you just go to an emergency room.”

This is what you might call callousness with consequences. The White House has announced that Mr. Bush will veto a bipartisan plan that would extend health insurance, and with it such essentials as regular checkups and preventive medical care, to an estimated 4.1 million currently uninsured children. After all, it’s not as if those kids really need insurance – they can just go to emergency rooms, right?

Let us hope that the Republicans are wheezing on a respirator while they circle the drain and their health insurance is about to be canceled.