On October 3, 2007, President Bush vetoed H.R. 976, a bill passed by Congress that would have expanded the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) program by $35 billion because he believed the bill would “federalize health care”, expanding the scope of SCHIP much farther than its original intent. SCHIP was founded by Senator Ted Kennedy and First Lady (now a senator from New York) Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1997 in their incremental attempt to federalize health care in the … Continue reading →