On health care, Bush puts Iraq before US

Both chambers of Congress passed a bill that would increase spending on children's health coverage by $35 billion over the next five years.  President Bush is planning to veto the bill, claiming that health care should be a luxury and not a right:

At the same time that they try to expand S-CHIP to older citizens, theyare trying to expand Medicare to younger citizens.  Their goal is totake incremental steps down the path to government-run health care forevery American.  It's the wrong path for our nation.

Now for the flip-flop.  While the President opposes universal health care here in the United States, he supported the idea of free, not-for-profit health care in Iraq.  In 2003 the Administration awarded a health care contract to Abt Associates to supply universal health care to the Iraqi people.

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[granny]

President Bush ~ "claiming that health care should be a luxury and not a right" describes the entire breadth and wideth of the Republican ideology.