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Health care politics is almost exclusively about money. Bush's opposition to SCHIP expansion, accompanied by his effort to restrict the current program, is not about "free markets" as SCHIP relies on private insurers. It's not about balancing the budget, as even the proposed expansion of SCHIP funding would come from a budget cut to subsidies to insurers who compete with Medicare and not from a tax increase. What's it about? It's part of a fear that the first step in national health care will be to insure all children, and a comprehensive national plan will grow from that as people realize how beneficial that is.
Are you implying that having better financial tools that may improve the standard of living (a form of providing for the general Welfare of the United States)of US market participants is less important than balancing the budget and providing for the common Offense instead of the specifically enumerated common Defense?