Expanded coverage faces White House veto

It is nothing short of shameful that 9 million American children are not covered by either public or private health insurance.

And now that the U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation in a 225-204 vote largely along party lines that would expand coverage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program to insure an additional 5 million children, President Bush is threatening a veto.

Bush said in Cleveland Wednesday that he would oppose "Congress's attempt to federalize medicine."

Federalize medicine? What are the Medicare and Medicaid programs, if not federalized medicine? And where would we be without those?

Children Left Behind