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President Bush rebuffed a health care compromise yesterday that would expand a program that provides coverage to poor children. The Senate's bipartisan proposal would insure 3.3 million more kids, but Bush says he'll veto any expansion of government health care on philosophical grounds—despite pleas from within the GOP.
"You have consensus across party and ideology," complains Rahm Emanuel, "except for one person." Senators Baucus, Grassley, Hatch, and others propose raising funding for the program by $60 billion over the next five years, paying for the increase with an ramped-up cigarette tax, which Bush also opposes.
