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IDAHO'S CONGRESSMEN SPLIT ON SCHIP VOTE

Posted on: October 18, 2007

by Bryan Fischer, Executive Director – Idaho Values Alliance

As expected, Rep. Bill Sali voted to sustain President Bush’s veto of the bloated SCHIP bill (H.R. 976) while Rep. Mike Simpson voted to override. Fortunately for Idaho’s families, the bill fell 16 votes short of the total needed to reverse the president’s veto.

Under this bill, money could have been extracted from the wallets of Idaho families and sent across the country to subsidize health care for families in New York making $83,000 a year, which is immoral and wrongheaded on its face. It makes much better sense to keep Idaho money in Idaho for Idaho’s children.

By radically expanding eligibility parameters, the bill would have included adults in its coverage and would have been a giant step toward socialized medicine. Further, by reducing identification requirements to simple possession of a Social Security number, it would have created an enormous potential for fraud.

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