Health Photo-Op, Then Fundraiser With Insurance Executive

Bush today is doing a photo-op at a children's hospital, even though he tried to cut funding for children's hospitals...then he is immediately going to a $2000-a-plate fundraiser at a health insurance executive's house:

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL PHOTO-OP DESPITE CUTTING CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FUNDING: Bush's budget this year proposes to freeze funding for grants to children's hospitals. He also proposes a $94 million cut to the Community Access Program, which makes grants to children's hospitals, and proposes a $158 million cut to training grants for specialties like pediatrics. Last year, Bush proposed to cut $86 million out of grants to children's hospitals. And in 2002, he proposed to cut $35 million out of grants for children's hospitals to train pediatricians.

THEN ATTENDING FUNDRAISER AT INSURANCE EXECUTIVE'S HOUSE: The President is expected to attend a fundraiser at the house of Clay Jackson. Jackson is a major Bush/Republican contributor, and an executive at BB&T, a company which provides, among other things, health insurance services. Bush's Medicare bill provides private insurance companies a new $130 billion subsidy.