Heath Care Anyone?

On Monday, September 24, 2007, President Bush and Congress met to debate over a health care program that would support more than ten million Americans. The main debate goes back to the principles of each party, the Republican Party advocated by Bush versus the Democratic controlled Congress. It is a Republican belief that the government should take a very low part in a person’s life, by passing this bill; a huge amount of money would be paid for by the government and would be the first step to government run health care system. The Democrats believe that the government should provide for the people and a great way for them to do this would be to pass this program to protect children. The new program that was recently compromised would be to have a total of 60 billion dollars for five years, which is an increase of 35 billion from the previous program that supported 6.6 million children. Both sides agree that this is a massive amount of money, but what they cannot agree on is if it is worth the money. Democrats feel that if they do not, the children currently enrolled will be at a loss, and that the other children are in desperate need for the health care. However, Bush says that the amount of money this requires will deplete at least a dozen states of its money in the next month. Democrats are starting an attack to make it seem that Bush and Republicans are against children, and because of this, the bill will most likely be passed in Congress, and could destroy Bush if he goes ahead with the veto. I do not know where I stand for on health care, I am most likely on the Republican side, because the funds of the government are too spread out to put another huge debt on the country. A budget report shows that if this bill is passed, than in two months a dozen states that will run out of money, how could this be helping children. I do worry about he children that will be affected by not renewing the plan, maybe the way to reach a compromise to ensure the state’s and the children’s security is to lower the amount of money required. 60 billion dollars was a huge increase than what was expected, and will cause bankruptcy of too many states. The debt is just too high and our resources are too spread out to be able to pass a bill like this. However, I believe the Democrats are being unfair and unjust in pushing this health care. They are trying to make it seem that President Bush is against children. It is the Republican belief to limit the government’s role in the people’s lives; he is doing what his political belief system dictates that people should take care of themselves with as little federal government interference as possible. He in no way is against children in any way, he just believes that this heath care measure will in the long run just create more damage than it can help.