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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPerry: Texas will not implement key elements of health care reform
Texas will not expand Medicaid or establish a health insurance exchange, two major tenets of the federal health reform that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld last month, Gov. Rick Perry said in an early morning announcement.
"I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the Obamacare power grab," he said in a statement. "Neither a 'state' exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under this program would result in better 'patient protection' or in more 'affordable care.' They would only make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care."
Perry's office sent a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Monday morning asserting his opposition, both to accepting more than a hundred million federal dollars over the next several years to put more poor Texas adults onto Medicaid, and to creating an Orbitz-style online insurance marketplace for consumers.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states even Texas, which has the country's highest rate of the uninsured may not be punished for opting out of the Medicaid. The insurance exchange is not optional; if Texas doesn't devise its own, the feds will establish a one-size-fits-all program for the state.
If anyone was in doubt, we in Texas have no intention to implement so-called state exchanges or to expand Medicaid under Obamacare," Perry said in a statement. "I will not be party to socializing healthcare and bankrupting my state in direct contradiction to our Constitution and our founding principles of limited government."
"I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the Obamacare power grab," he said in a statement. "Neither a 'state' exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under this program would result in better 'patient protection' or in more 'affordable care.' They would only make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care."
Perry's office sent a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Monday morning asserting his opposition, both to accepting more than a hundred million federal dollars over the next several years to put more poor Texas adults onto Medicaid, and to creating an Orbitz-style online insurance marketplace for consumers.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states even Texas, which has the country's highest rate of the uninsured may not be punished for opting out of the Medicaid. The insurance exchange is not optional; if Texas doesn't devise its own, the feds will establish a one-size-fits-all program for the state.
If anyone was in doubt, we in Texas have no intention to implement so-called state exchanges or to expand Medicaid under Obamacare," Perry said in a statement. "I will not be party to socializing healthcare and bankrupting my state in direct contradiction to our Constitution and our founding principles of limited government."
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/texas-health-resources/medicaid/perry-tx-wont-implement-key-elements-health-reform/
To all rational Texans, and especially to those rational Texans without care, hang in there. Hopefully as the law is implemented elsewhere and becomes more popular, your batshit insane governor will come to his senses or you'll be able to get rid of him.
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Perry: Texas will not implement key elements of health care reform (Original Post)
boxman15
Jul 2012
OP
Another governor of a state with almost 20% of it's citizens without healthcare
LynneSin
Jul 2012
#1
How long before the South fucks up again with another attempt to leave the union?
HopeHoops
Jul 2012
#2
It would be nice to believe that those rational texans would vote the sob out /nt
still_one
Jul 2012
#6
"I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors..." Only Rick Perry would brag about saying
yellowcanine
Jul 2012
#9
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)1. Another governor of a state with almost 20% of it's citizens without healthcare
So when that 20% who doesn't have healthcare gets sick and finally does something about it they will end up in the emergency room. And since they can't afford their bills it'll go back to the state to cover it.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)2. How long before the South fucks up again with another attempt to leave the union?
Drale
(7,932 posts)3. Where does this arrogance come from
apparently in their eyes the office of Governor is higher then the office of President.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)4. When does Obama get to send in the 82nd Airborne? - n/t
Arkana
(24,347 posts)5. Little Ricky forgot that the Feds will just elbow his useless ass aside
and set it up for him should he refuse.
still_one
(92,394 posts)6. It would be nice to believe that those rational texans would vote the sob out /nt
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)7. Let's just call Rick Perry what he is: A MURDERER.
He's depriving his state's citizens of health care for no reason other than spite, and because of that, probably hundreds of Texans will die preventable deaths as a result.
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)8. Won't the Feds set up the exchanges anyway?
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)9. "I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors..." Only Rick Perry would brag about saying
"me too!" a day late and a dollar short.