Objectively Pro-Baby-Killing
What kind of person would deliberately deny medical care to a newborn baby? No prizes for guessing. From Tenessee Guerilla Women:
Today the GOP snatches health care rights from babies born to immigrants, tomorrow they’ll snatch health care away from all the babes born outside of their gated communities.
Talkleft has the grim details:
All children born in the U.S. are United States citizens. But the Bush-signed Deficit Reduction Act that went into effect in July prevents Medicaid from covering health care benefits to those born to undocumented residents — unless the parents file proof of citizenship for the child, which is a catch-22 because the application form takes weeks or months and many of the immigrant parents don’t want to alert authorities to their presence here.
Hospitals are just now catching up with the law’s demands and doctors are justifiably outraged:
Dr. Jay E. Berkelhamer, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the policy ?punishes babies who, according to the Constitution, are citizens because they were born here.? Dr. Martin C. Michaels, a pediatrician in Dalton, Ga., said that continuous coverage in the first year of life was important because ?newborns need care right from the start.?
I really shouldn’t be shocked – after all, this is perfectly in character for a man with his upbringing. His mother refused to go to her own mother’s funeral, played golf on the day after her own 5 year old daughter’s funeral and kept his sister’s terminal leuekemia a secret from him.
This is a man who, when his own daughter was rushed to hospital for appendix surgery, jetted off on holiday to Florida with the rest of his callous family without an apparent care in the world. Compassion for children is not his strong suit, despite the frequent photo ops. This is no biggie to him.
But I am shocked. This takes callousness to whole new levels.
Read more: George Bush, Bush family, Immigration, Medicare, Child health
