Eight in 10 Americans favor expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or S-CHIP, including large majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents.
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[The] poll finds that only about one in five Americans (22 percent) approve of the president’s handling of health care. That’s lower even than his approval rating on Iraq (26 percent).
These new numbers come hot on the heels of the vote today by House Republicans to rubberstamp Bush’s veto of the S-CHIP program.
As we noted earlier, a GOP pol who predicted his colleagues would sustain the veto was incredulous. “I don’t know why our guys are following [Bush] into the sea like lemmings,” he said.
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