August 30, 2007 1:30 PM

You Don't Need Two T's (or two L's) to Take it to the Man

Standing up to Bush is not just for Senators anymore. Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York State is threatening to sue President Bush over the his imminent veto of SCHIP.

In this age of political corruption and depravity, why is Governor Spitzer doing such a thing, you ask? To save the lives of poor little children. To be frank, Eliot Spitzer just cares too much.

"If they come back to us and refuse to budge from the positions they've taken, then we will sue," he said.

California and New York cover more than 1.4 million children and pregnant women using State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) funds -- nearly one out of every four SCHIP recipients in the country. We have a long and productive relationship with CMS in leveraging SCHIP to innovatively provide maximum benefit with minimum resources.

We agree with your push for states to be a force for change in the delivery of health care to tens of millions of our fellow Americans who remain without meaningful coverage. But as you rally governors to do more to help fix our broken health care system, your administration has repeatedly modified existing Medicaid and SCHIP rules, harming states' capacity to help you achieve our shared objectives.

The recently proposed SCHIP rules will reverse longstanding agreements with the states and reduce the number of children who receive health care. We strongly urge you to reconsider these recent policy changes, which simply diminish state flexibility.

KAPOW! Take that Mr. President. If you want more info on this issue check out Families USA, one of our awesome 2007 Donations Recipients.