Bush vetoes bill on children's health care

    Public policy is clearly moving towards more transparency of medical cost and outcomes. All the leading democratic candidates say that national health care is part of their agenda. Bush has relented from his veto position, and is considering lowering the poverty level for increased child-Medicaid eligibility. Politically, the republicans will be hard pressed not to pass new...

Many lower income families depend on the SCHIP program administered by individual states to pay for healthcare. Republicans see this as just another entitlement program while Democrats see it as an essential way of making sure children have access to the basics in healthcare. This veto might be based more on political than financial (and certainly medical) grounds.