Washington, Oct 18 -
Cannon Votes to Sustain the President's Veto on SCHIP
WASHINGTON DC - Congressman Chris Cannon (R-UT) today voted to sustain the veto by President Bush of the SCHIP expansion. After his vote, Congressman Cannon said:
“Perhaps this program can now be reauthorized for truly needy kids instead of adults and people making $80,000 a year like this flawed legislation would have. We could reauthorize the program tomorrow for truly needy kids if we could remove the politics from a serious debate over children’s health. We all want all children to have health care. The best way to achieve that goal is by having people keep more of what they earn. Providing a tax break so families could buy private health insurance and ensuring that only worthy medical malpractice cases make it to court would do more than any government program ever could.”
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