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USA: Child Health Insurance Issue

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If you dont live in USA, you probably dont know that USA has the worst health care system in the world, creating a situation inside the country when families with average or below annual income cannot afford medical care in case of a major disease or an injury that require hospitalization for more then a month.

At this moment, the US Senate is making a decision on improving the child health care system for kids from families with low income per family member. The President Bush is trying to kill the program by any means, opposing Senate, giving arguments against the new care system that are far from reality or with no human common sense… Even Republican part of the Senate is all about overcoming Bush’ veto.

I was watching Bloomberg channel today and there was a presidential candidate (unfortunately I did not catch his name), who has very “conservative”, evangelical Christian view, the true warrior against abortion and for “Lord Jesus”. As usual, his argument against the new Child Care Insurance program was that “there are families which make $80,000 a year and still receiving the aid from the program”. What he does not say is that those families have 12 children, and single point of income (dad) with mother staying at home and taking care of the kids. Those $80,000 are not the same as the $80,000 earn by a family of three (mom, dad and a child)…