Fact Checking the Fact Checker

by: Juan Melli

Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 10:41:58 PM EDT

That may be true, but I think he made a mistake in his fact-checking of Senator Menendez's statement:

Not true: "President Bush has told millions of children who have nowhere else to turn that the greatest country in the world refuses to look out for their health."-- Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J.

True: "If the program is not reauthorized, these children and their families might lose their coverage or alternatively New Jersey taxpayers will be forced to pick up the tab." -- Governor Corzine

These children are in addition to those already covered by the program.

In New Jersey, those already covered may retain their coverage if the state funds FamilyCare on its own. If other states don't do the same, children currently covered under SCHIP will lose health care coverage. But regardless of what New Jersey or any other state does, it is true that by his veto Bush has "told millions of children who have nowhere else to turn that the greatest country in the world refuses to look out for their health."