Medicare covers people 65 and older
Medicaid covers low income families.
These are both examples of socialized health care, but I never hear conservatives complain about them. Now we get a bill which expands children’s health care coverage, and conservatives seem to hate it:http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;…
The president’s alternative is to renew SCHIP by spending an additional $5 billion over the next five years. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says this wouldn’t even support coverage of kids already in the program.
Bush says the bill would distort SCHIP’s low-income focus by extending coverage to families making up to $83,000 a year. Backers of the bill insist it does no such thing. As under current law, a state can ask to go that high, typically because it has a high cost of living, but it still needs the administration’s permission.
Why cover the poor and elderly but not kids?