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AARP calls Sustained CHIP veto ‘disgraceful’

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AARP released  a statement  today in response to the failed vote in the House of Representatives to override the President’s veto of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The statement, from AARP CEO Bill Novelli, follows:

“Today a minority in Congress helped block a critical reauthorization

and expansion of CHIP, which would have provided health care to nearly 10

million American children. This is disgraceful.

“Large, bipartisan majorities in both chambers came together and

negotiated a bill that our children needed and that the public wanted.

Expanding CHIP and paying for the program with higher tobacco taxes is a

smart, popular and responsible way to begin reducing the number of

uninsured in this country. In a time when health care is at the top of the

national agenda, a small group of lawmakers have actually voted to add to

the 47 million Americans living without health insurance. No child deserves

that.”