]> http://www.campaignmoney.org/blog/2007/08/29/sick-priorities Comments for "Sick Priorities" en http://www.campaignmoney.org/blog/2007/08/29/sick-priorities Forty-seven million Americans don&#39;t have health insurance, and 8.7 million of them are children according to<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/19319.html"> just-released census data.</a> The numbers signal a disturbing trend: the number of uninsured are rising (even as the median income rises) and still President Bush is vocal in his opposition to expanding a program that could extend insurance to 5 to 6 million children, by levying higher taxes on tobacco products. Ah, the great moral quandary: <a href="/blog/2007/08/07/children-or-tobacco">healthy kids or healthy profit margins for Big Tobacco?</a> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:34:16 -0500