Rick Perry’s cold-blooded health care claim: Texans like being uninsured!
With 22 percent of residents uninsured, the Lone Star State bears the dubious distinction of having the nations highest rate of people without health insurance, but former Texas Gov. Rick Perry wears that ranking as a badge of honor.
Appearing in the Granite State ahead of a potential 2016 bid for president, Perry told the New Hampshire Journal that Texans like their lack of health care quite well, thank you very much and please serve that with a side of freedom fries.
Texas has been criticized for having a large number of uninsured, Perry said. But thats what Texans wanted. They did not want a large government program forcing everyone to purchase insurance.
While Perrys political base may be perfectly content to scrap the Affordable Care Act and its individual mandate, the governor conveniently glided over his role in denying coverage to 1.5 million Texans with a median income of $833 when he rejected Obamacares Medicaid expansion funds. Under Texas stringent Medicaid rules, non-disabled parents must earn less than 19 percent of the poverty level an estimated $4,500 for a family of four to gain coverage under the program.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2015/02/12/rick_perrys_cold_blooded_health_care_claim_texans_like_being_uninsured/
[font color=green]Yes, I'm thrilled not to have health insurance. [/font]