Texas Governor Rick Perry Refuses to Expand Medicaid to One Million Uninsured Texans

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By Michael Allen, Sun, February 24, 2013


Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has repeatedly attacked Obamacare, is still refusing to expand Medicaid to more than one million uninsured people in his state, reports the Houston Chronicle.

Texas has the nation’s highest rate of uninsured residents, and the proposed Medicaid expansion, under Obamacare, would cover more than one million new people.

“Let me go on the record here for a moment: We’re not going to be expanding Medicaid in Texas,” Perry said during a speech in Washington D.C. on Friday. “The reason is because it’s a broken system. It’s moving our state, and I’ll just speak to our state, towards bankruptcy if we expand the current program.”

Last week, protesters outside the Texas State Capitol waved signs and gave speeches slamming Perry for refusing to accept the funding, a decision that the Supreme Court ruled last year was up to individual states to make.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/health/health-care/texas-governor-rick-perry-refuses-expand-medicaid-1-million-uninsured-texans#

[Loudly]

1. Are most Texans Rick Perry or Lyndon Johnson Texans?

[mbperrin]

3. I'm with LBJ all the way.

Perry was a lousy yell leader, even. I have no clue how he got into the governor's house.

[Loudly]

4. And explain George W. Bush if you can.

What a terrible figure to push onto the national stage.

Not holding YOU responsible, please understand.

[Javaman]

6. he was from Connecticut. nt

[mbperrin]

8. Yep, from a well-connected Connecticut family.

All I can say.

[MotherPetrie]

2. Evil fucker

[Ilsa]

5. It would be something, wouldn't it, if the next time he

has to go to the hospital, they tell him that his insurance is no good, he has to pay upfront. Granted, he could write them a check because of all the money he's made trading favors and wheelin' & dealin', but I'd like for him to experience some serious panic for a moment.

[ashling]

7. From FB

[ajain31]

9. Medicaid Expansion under Obamacare (ACA) in Texas

You or I do not have ANY control over Federal taxes. What all pay into Federal taxes is FIXED. We can not change it ANYWAY. If people understand that then it is easy to understand that some States are donor states and some states are recipient states. Most of the Southern States are recipient states by virtue of what they pay INTO Federal taxes (which is LESS) and what they receive as Federal support (which is MORE).

No state can change the State donor role or State recipient role overnight. Most Republican Governors are just loosing out in that they are refusing the Federal largess (the Federal handout) on Medicaid Expansion because Believe it or not IT IS A FACT: If states choose to expand Medicaid, the federal government will cover 100 percent of the costs from 2014 to 2016. The feds' contribution will begin to decrease in 2017, but will never be less than 90 percent, under the ACA also known as Obamacare.

So people opposing Medicaid Expansion can cry foul till their cows come back home but they will with their State be the looser in the long run. If history is correct it all started the same way for the very well established system of Medicare in this nation.

(Check it out!) Many states refused to accept Medicare in the 60's as a way of doing business just like they are rejecting Medicaid expansion under Obamacare a.k.a. ACA (Affordable Care ACT) but in the long run when Reagan got tired of appearing in anti-Medicare Ads all over the country Medicare was established as the way of doing business (taking care of our elder population's medical needs) and to this day it is an accepted wise and affordable way of supporting our Seniors.

Mark my words in less than a decade i.e. by 2023 Medicaid Expansion will be the accepted norm all over the country and NOT the EXCEPTION. You and I can not beat the economics of fairness. Try your best but within this decade either Governors who accept Medicaid Expansion will be elected or Governors who reject Medicaid Expansion will be DEFEATED.

And if Medicare is any example MEDICAID will go the same rout. I repeat, Mark my words in less than a decade i.e. by 2023 Medicaid Expansion will be the accepted norm all over the country. And I am saying that proudly as I do not find the need to hide my identity behind pseudonyms.

People opposing Medicaid Expansion have access to Google.com and I believe they are intelligent people. Check it out: IT IS A FACT: If states choose to expand Medicaid, the federal government will cover 100 percent of the costs from 2014 to 2016. The feds' contribution will begin to decrease in 2017, but will never be less than 90 percent, under the ACA.

That's why I created a petition to Governor Rick Perry, Texas Governor, The Texas State House, The Texas State Senate, and Governor Rick Perry, which says:

"Please ACCEPT the FREE EXPANSION of MEDICAID under The Affordable Care ACT."

Will you sign this petition? Click here:
http://signon.org/sign/accept-free-expansion?source=c.em.cp&r_by=7268737

Thanks!

Ajay Jain
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