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EDITORIAL: Override overdrive: SCHIP debate bypasses key question.(Editorial)

Oct. 10--Those urging an override of President Bush's veto of a children's health insurance bill use emotion-laded arguments that avoid the hard question of whether people who can afford health insurance should take the responsibility to obtain it. The latest polemic comes from the taxpayer-funded Community Action Project in Tulsa, which is hauling water for the override gang.

When governments cover health care, as they must for the poorest citizens, the responsibility for coverage passes from individuals to taxpayers. Expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to middle-class families is a transfer of responsibility as much as it is an expansion of ...

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