A Time to Act
I urge each one of you to call and email your Representatives in Congress to override the President's recent veto of the S-CHIP bill just passed overwhelmingly by both houses of Congress. This bill makes sure that no child in America will be without medical insurance because their family cannot afford such coverage on their own.
President Bush vetoed this bill in spite of his previous pledge to support it because he believes that the cutoff level for participation in the program is too high at $83,000 and he has ideological fears of "socializing" medicine.
Apparently he hasn't priced health insurance obtained individually for a family with children in quite some time or he would know that according to Milliman Medical Index, the annual medical costs for an average insured family of four were $13,382 in 2006 and have increased at a rate of 10% a year for the last 5 years.
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Meanwhile wages have been more or less stagnant for the vast majority of working class Americans for many years as indicated by the President's own Census Bureau and have actually declined slightly over the same last 5 years with median household income now being around $43,000.
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Even at the President's worst case of $83,000 which is nearly twice the national median household income, about one out of every 6 dollars would need to be spent on healthcare which is an outrageousy high figure. Between the dramatic rises prices of health insurance, home insurance, housing, energy, and college tuition during your administration President Bush, $83,000 really isn't what it used be.
The reality for the average family with a median income of $43,000 is that slightly less than one out of every 3 dollars has to be spent on healthcare. At the national poverty level of around $20,650 (in 2006) for a family of four, healthcare becomes more than 50% of the entire family income.
Apparently the President is more concerned about satisfying his hard right ideological friends who are opposed to any government related effort to help - out of fear that it would lead to "socialism" - than he is about helping working people actually make ends meet.
Apparently the President can afford to spend over $2.5 billion per week on the war in Iraq into the indefinite future and has spent over a half a trillion dollars on a war that has been going on for over 4 years now but does not think American children deserve decent affordable health care at a cost of around $500 million per week.
Now is the time to act.
I urge each one of you to contact your Congressman by phone, fax, or email or visit them at their district office to let them know that you expect them to do the right thing by America’s working families and override President Bush’s veto. You can send an email via Link .
By: Douglas J. De Clue
Edwards Meetup Orlando Organizer,
Orlando One Corps Co-Captain,
Precinct Committeeman, Orange County, 311
Orlando, FL
President Bush vetoed this bill in spite of his previous pledge to support it because he believes that the cutoff level for participation in the program is too high at $83,000 and he has ideological fears of "socializing" medicine.
Apparently he hasn't priced health insurance obtained individually for a family with children in quite some time or he would know that according to Milliman Medical Index, the annual medical costs for an average insured family of four were $13,382 in 2006 and have increased at a rate of 10% a year for the last 5 years.
(source: Link.
Meanwhile wages have been more or less stagnant for the vast majority of working class Americans for many years as indicated by the President's own Census Bureau and have actually declined slightly over the same last 5 years with median household income now being around $43,000.
(source: Link
Even at the President's worst case of $83,000 which is nearly twice the national median household income, about one out of every 6 dollars would need to be spent on healthcare which is an outrageousy high figure. Between the dramatic rises prices of health insurance, home insurance, housing, energy, and college tuition during your administration President Bush, $83,000 really isn't what it used be.
The reality for the average family with a median income of $43,000 is that slightly less than one out of every 3 dollars has to be spent on healthcare. At the national poverty level of around $20,650 (in 2006) for a family of four, healthcare becomes more than 50% of the entire family income.
Apparently the President is more concerned about satisfying his hard right ideological friends who are opposed to any government related effort to help - out of fear that it would lead to "socialism" - than he is about helping working people actually make ends meet.
Apparently the President can afford to spend over $2.5 billion per week on the war in Iraq into the indefinite future and has spent over a half a trillion dollars on a war that has been going on for over 4 years now but does not think American children deserve decent affordable health care at a cost of around $500 million per week.
Now is the time to act.
I urge each one of you to contact your Congressman by phone, fax, or email or visit them at their district office to let them know that you expect them to do the right thing by America’s working families and override President Bush’s veto. You can send an email via Link .
By: Douglas J. De Clue
Edwards Meetup Orlando Organizer,
Orlando One Corps Co-Captain,
Precinct Committeeman, Orange County, 311
Orlando, FL