Poll: Americans Support Children's Health Program

[ehrnst]

Source: NPR

An overwhelming majority of Americans strongly support continuing and expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), but a lesser number would favor an attempt to override President Bush's veto of Congress' bill, according to a new poll.

Congress passed a bill to expand SCHIP, which provides health care to millions of poor children, which was vetoed by Bush last month. Lawmakers will take up the issue again as early as Thursday.

The new survey by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health shows 70 percent of those polled support adding $35 billion to the health care program over five years. A slightly smaller majority, though, 64 percent, favor overriding the president's veto of the bill.



Read more: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15334962

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News at 11....

[Ian David]

1. pResident says NoOoOOoo... n/t

[iconoclastic cat]

2. As usual, 30% of Americans are irredeemable idiots. nt

[ehrnst]

3. I'm just curious about the 6% that favor the bill, but also support the veto.

What - they care about kids, but don't want to offend Bush?

[iconoclastic cat]

4. Not only idiots, but cowards. nt

[raccoon]

5. They probably don't know what "veto" means. nt

[emmadoggy]

8. Me too.

:wtf:

[okoboji]

6. found one!

Here's a person who doesn't support this ... go ahead, now your chance to let him know what you think...

http://siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/10/17/news_opinion/mini/45257444cf78c0948625737600762d29.txt

[Serial Mom]

7. I just called my congressman and "encouraged" him

to override the presidents veto

but, alas, he is a "senselessbrenner" repuke and I doubt he would listen to his constituents!