Newly elected U.S. Rep. Bob Latta (R., Bowling Green) will face a challenge for the Republican nomination March 4 from an Iraq War veteran and West Point graduate who filed his candidacy papers yesterday.
Don't you just love the fighting in the GOP???
> President George W. Bush apparently forgot about his "compassionate conservative" pledge.
San Francisco Sentinel:
The Bush administration is imposing restrictions on the ability of states to expand eligibility for Medicaid, in an effort to prevent them from offering coverage to families of modest incomes who, the administration argues, may have access to private health insurance.
The restrictions mirror those the administration placed on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program in August after states tried to broaden eligibility for it as well.
Until now, states had generally been free to set their own Medicaid eligibility criteria, and the Bush administration had not openly declared that it would apply the August directive to Medicaid. State officials in Louisiana, Ohio and Oklahoma said they had discovered the administration’s intent in negotiations with the federal government over the last few weeks....
Mr. Bush has no interest in the health of poor American children.