Today Congress will pass critically needed bi-partisan legislation to expand health care coverage to millions of uninsured children.

President Bush has promised to veto the compromise bill. His reasoning: the increase in children’s health care would be paid for with a tax increase on tobacco and (this is the kind of really werid part) if we start insuring more kids it will lead America down the slippery path toward national health care.

Universal health care is a bad thing?

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