Krugman on Bush and S-Chip

Published: July 30, 2007, 8:21 am

Tags: universal health care, health science, george w bush

The WaPo's Christopher Lee noted recently, If anything looked like a sure thing in the new Congress, it was that lawmakers would renew, and probably expand, the popular, decade-old State Children's Health Insurance Program before it expires this year. It's a no-brainer, right? Who's going to balk at an established, successful program that offers health insurance for kids? As it turns out, the president is. Is it because he doesn't think the program works? No, the administration acknowledges that S-CHIP works well. Is it because it's fiscally irresponsible? No, it's fairly inexpensive. Bush's opposition is entirely, by his own admission, ideological. The program offends his philosophy of government. Today, Paul Krugman takes him to task. It's not because [Bush] thinks the plans wouldn't work. It's because he's afraid that they would. That is, he fears that voters, having seen how the government can help children, would ask why it can't do the same for

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