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Washington, D.C., October 3rd – Congressman Jim Moran, Virginia Democrat, issued the following statement regarding the President’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program bill (H.R. 976).
“The President’s priorities are clear. When faced with a choice between providing health care for low income American children and funding a war in a foreign land, he has put war first.
“SCHIP is a bipartisan, popular program that gives children from low income families an opportunity to lead a happy, healthy and productive life. Instead of providing for our future generations, the President’s veto threatens to strip health insurance for six million American children – 211,000 living in the Commonwealth.
“For $3.50 a day, we can ensure a child has access to a primary care physician. Contrast that with the cost to taxpayers of an emergency room visit for an indigent child and the cost effectiveness of SCHIP becomes clear.
“This veto brings into sharp contrast President Bush’s misguided priorities. His willingness to sacrifice our domestic programs in favor of an ill-fated mission to bring democracy at the barrel of a gun does not have the support of the public and threatens to shortchange the most vulnerable in our population – our children.”
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