Your Tax Dollars!

It’s a minor example among the countless ones of the Bush administration’s fiscal incontinence, but the money the Bush administration is using to fund useless abstinence-only programs and useless abstinence-only advertising campaigns makes it pretty clear that the veto of SCHIP was not about the money, but about the horrifying prospect that providing insurance to more middle class children might create a slippery slope to the kind of health care system used in every other liberal democracy where more people are covered for less money for health outcomes that aren’t any worse. And we can’t have that!