There are too many people especially children in Utah who do not have any health insurance. That is why it is such a disappointment to read today in The Washington Post that Bush says he will veto an expansion of the CHIP program that covers children of lower-income families. (See my post at ROBERTO ANTONIO on this development.)
We have lived in Utah since 1977. How come the State of Utah has never passed a comprehensive health insurance program that would cover everyone, especially those in the lower income brackets who cannot afford health insurance on their own?
Where was Norm Bangerter, governor of Utah in the 1980s on this issue? As I recall, he never even mentioned health insurance in his entire time in office. How about Mike Leavitt, governor during the 1990s? He's now a cabinet officer in charge of Health and Human Services for the federal government. Yet I never heard him even suggest a program for universal health insurance while he was governor of the state.
And how about present Congressman Jim Matheson (D-2nd Dist.)? I guess the fact that thousands of Utahns in his district have no health insurance is really not a problem for Jim. He'd rather talk platitudes about the goals of the "Blue Dogs" than get his hands messy with helping people obtain health insurance.
We have lived in Utah since 1977. How come the State of Utah has never passed a comprehensive health insurance program that would cover everyone, especially those in the lower income brackets who cannot afford health insurance on their own?
Where was Norm Bangerter, governor of Utah in the 1980s on this issue? As I recall, he never even mentioned health insurance in his entire time in office. How about Mike Leavitt, governor during the 1990s? He's now a cabinet officer in charge of Health and Human Services for the federal government. Yet I never heard him even suggest a program for universal health insurance while he was governor of the state.
And how about present Congressman Jim Matheson (D-2nd Dist.)? I guess the fact that thousands of Utahns in his district have no health insurance is really not a problem for Jim. He'd rather talk platitudes about the goals of the "Blue Dogs" than get his hands messy with helping people obtain health insurance.
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