Congress faces vote on SCHIP funding today
Maryland faces program cuts if bill fails to overcome presidential veto
"From a strict view of public finance, there is a desire to keep taxes as low as possible to keep a robust economy," Herring said. "If taxes are raised to provide a service people are already purchasing, it is inefficient."
Herring was a senior economist in the White House's Council of Economic Advisers before he joined the Health Policy and Management department at Bloomberg in July.
President Bush suggested a proposal to increase SCHIP funding by $5 billion up to $30 billion total.
"Bush's plan does not have enough money to sustain the program, according to the Congressional Budget Office," Dubay said.
In response to such charges by the CBO, Bush said that he was willing to increase funding.
"If putting poor children first takes a little more than the 20 percent increase I have proposed in my budget for SCHIP, I am willing to work with leaders in Congress to find the additional money," he said in the President's Radio Address on Oct. 6.
In the same address, Bush said that by passing a bill he had promised to veto when SCHIP is set to expire, Congressional Democrats "are risking health coverage for poor children purely to make a political point."
"It's unfortunate that politics has to enter into it, but that's the nature of Washington," said Cathy Bassett, press secretary for Rep. Wayne Gilchrest. The Maryland Congressman was one of 44 Republican representatives who voted to override the veto.
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), who voted for the original creation of SCHIP, was the only Maryland Congressman who opposed the bill and supported the veto.
Bartlett Press Secretary Lisa Wright declined to comment beyond statements Bartlett released on his Web site.
"The Democrats' proposal to expand SCHIP would entice two million middle and upper middle class families who already have private health insurance to drop the policies they control and switch to taxpayer-paid government-controlled health insurance," Bartlett wrote in the statement.
Herring was a senior economist in the White House's Council of Economic Advisers before he joined the Health Policy and Management department at Bloomberg in July.
President Bush suggested a proposal to increase SCHIP funding by $5 billion up to $30 billion total.
"Bush's plan does not have enough money to sustain the program, according to the Congressional Budget Office," Dubay said.
In response to such charges by the CBO, Bush said that he was willing to increase funding.
"If putting poor children first takes a little more than the 20 percent increase I have proposed in my budget for SCHIP, I am willing to work with leaders in Congress to find the additional money," he said in the President's Radio Address on Oct. 6.
In the same address, Bush said that by passing a bill he had promised to veto when SCHIP is set to expire, Congressional Democrats "are risking health coverage for poor children purely to make a political point."
"It's unfortunate that politics has to enter into it, but that's the nature of Washington," said Cathy Bassett, press secretary for Rep. Wayne Gilchrest. The Maryland Congressman was one of 44 Republican representatives who voted to override the veto.
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), who voted for the original creation of SCHIP, was the only Maryland Congressman who opposed the bill and supported the veto.
Bartlett Press Secretary Lisa Wright declined to comment beyond statements Bartlett released on his Web site.
"The Democrats' proposal to expand SCHIP would entice two million middle and upper middle class families who already have private health insurance to drop the policies they control and switch to taxpayer-paid government-controlled health insurance," Bartlett wrote in the statement.
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