Congress to Tackle Child Health Insurance Veto

[spanone]

<snip> Some of the most significant Congressional activity will take place off the floor of the House and Senate this week as lawmakers begin delicate negotiations over resurrecting the vetoed children’s health insurance bill.

Backers of the bill from both parties will be meeting among themselves and with some Republicans to consider how to tinker with the legislation to either eliminate the objections of President Bush or win enough new Republican support to override a second veto.

It’s a complicated situation. Democrats are willing to make some changes to eliminate the chief criticisms of the legislation, but they do not want to go too far in ways tht would either reduce the number of new children to be covered under the measure or be seen as caving to the White House. Republicans are eager to put the politically charged fight behind them and would like to find a way to support the legislation. But they can’t completely surrender their objections or it will seem as if they initially opposed the bill for no good reason.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/congress-to-tackle-child-health-insurance-veto/index.html?hp

[Clark2008]

1. Easy: tax everyone, not just smokers.

It makes no sense to burdeon a dwindling group of citizens so that the program's never fully funded.

Tax products with high-fructose corn syrup, for example. That's a huge health risk - probably more so than smoking - and in nearly every processed food. The S-CHIP program would be solvent in 6 months with only a few cents on all these products.

[MNDemNY]

3. How about taxing income?

[endarkenment]

2. "either eliminate the objections of President Bush or"

forget the 'or' part, the cave-in will follow shortly.

[MNDemNY]

4. I prefer forgeting the ' the objections of' part.

[endarkenment]

6. yeah me too, but I know what is coming

[dkofos]

5. Impeach * & dick and try again.