Children’s health must be nation’s priority (John Kerry on SCHIP)

We have been modest where we should have been bold. If we, as senators, don’t stand for insuring every child in America, then what do we stand for? If America can spend $10 billion each month in Iraq, surely we can also spend $10 billion each year on children’s health.
Even more troubling, the president has launched a disinformation campaign to denounce this bill as a larger Democratic strategy or plot to massively expand federalized medicine. He has stubbornly pledged to veto a bill he hasn’t even read. Apparently, confronted with a bipartisan compromise to extend health care coverage to half of the 9 million American children without insurance today, the president sees only a vast, left-wing conspiracy.