Rick Perry says F you to two million Texans....

[MindMover]

Last edited Tue Jul 10, 2012, 12:33 AM - Edit history (3)

Texas Gov. Rick Perry will send a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today informing her that Texas will not implement two portions of President Obama’s health care plan despite the Supreme Court’s upholding it last month. Perry specifically will express his opposition to establishing a state health insurance exchange and expanding Medicaid required by the plan.

Ted Oberg of ABC News’ KTRK-TV obtained a portion of the letter that will be sent to Sebelius this morning.

“If anyone was in doubt, we in Texas have no intention to implement so-called state exchanges or to expand Medicaid under Obamacare. I will not be party to socializing health care and bankrupting my state in direct contradiction to our Constitution and our founding principles of limited government,” Perry says in the letter.

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Another sad story from the 1%ers, go buy your own insurance....with the serf wages we pay you...
and if you don't have a computer to shop with, go to your closest library where your tax dollars are hard at work....

Gov. Perry tells feds Texas won’t expand Medicaid, set up online service to shop for insurance

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/gov-perry-tells-feds-texas-wont-expand-medicaid-set-up-online-service-to-shop-for-insurance/2012/07/09/gJQAwvmTYW_story.html

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. I can't wait to see Mr. Perry handcuffed with criminal charges, on live TV

Time to pull a Federal Level power play on this ass-hat.

[Jumping John]

2. Meanwhile back at the Capitol Headquarters, Ricky is living in socialized housing that is

costing the state of Texas $9000/month and has cost over $1 million dollars so far.

[Special Prosciuto]

3. Can we now name him, officially, "PRICK."

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. Great!!!!

Now Texas Democrats get on your job (and BTW, help your damned self) ... Get in front, any and every, TV camera and Radio Microphone you can find and TELL your constituiency what the gop (not just your opponent, but the entire gop) has in store for them.

And you'll have to do it quickly ... before they realize that people, even in Texas, really do like seeing their/a doctor.

[CBHagman]

5. I always hear Texas has the highest percentage of uninsured people...

...of any of the 50 states. Looks like someone's trying to raise that percentage.

[Igel]

9. Largest #.

Then again, it's got one of the two largest populations. Even with the expansion, assuming TX fully funds Medicaid, even with the mandatory provisions of the ACA, we'd still have the largest # of uninsured.

I think the % depends on whether you count those that could be insured or everybody in the state.

[and-justice-for-all]

6. What a fucking POS! nt

[ShadowLiberal]

7. Count down till Perry's state medicaid fund goes bankrupt from lack of funding Obama was offering

For those who don't get the reference, Perry made a big deal a few years ago over turning down unemployment funding in the stimulus package, saying the requirements to change the unemployment requirement would cost Texas businesses too much. Within half a year of turning down the funding the Texas unemployment fund went bankrupt, as Perry KNEW it soon would since it wasn't exactly in great shape 6 months ago either. The bankruptcy forced Texas to raise unemployment taxes on Texas businesses MORE then it would have had to have been had he taken the stimulus money.

So in order words, Perry turned down free money his state was entitled to just to score a political 'win' against Obama, knowing full well it would hurt the state long term.

[Igel]

11. The money wasn't free.

To accept it the state would have had to alter who was eligible to receive unemployment. That would have increased revenues, and made TX eligible to receive Obama stimulus funds, but would have also increased outlays to the unemployed. Short-term, you could probably have ignored the increased expenses given the size of the stimulus amount.

That's what a lot of advocates did.

At this point--now that we're into the "long term"--the stimulus funds would be gone but the expanded coverage would almost certainly have stayed in place.

Short-term versus long-term.

The backroom political punditry, unlike the man on the street, included long-term thinking. It was good to expand unemployment coverage in the long term because it meant the unemployed would get money. To prevent long-term damage to the states' unemployment fund either the rate of the de facto payroll tax would have to be increased or there'd have to be a continued subsidization of state unemployment by the federal government, a shift of state funding towards the unemployed, or, even better, states would have to increase tax revenues. These were also good long-term goals.

Yes, I shifted to the plural, "states." A number of other states did the same math and came up with the same results. Some did alter their laws, under pressure to take the money that seemed, at the time, to be free. Now, the stimulus didn't continue; those states didn't raise taxes or unemployment insurance rates because their economies still sucked and those having lost income didn't want to pay more in taxes; so what was left was finding a way of using the same revenues to fund increased unemployment payments. And that meant cutting services elsewhere, which meant not being able to have as many employees on the state payroll. (Well, at least the pain was shared.)

[IndyJones]

8. You know how they have Undercover CEO? I wish they had Undercover Idiot Politician, too.

Make Perry live with low wages and try to support his family, put a roof over their heads and feed and clothe them and then if there's anything left, get insurance or even try to afford to go to the local clinic. It really makes me so mad when politicans like Perry grandstand at the detriment of people who really need help.

I love how the Republicans want to slam the healthcare law, but they offer absolutely no other solutions. It's just inhumane to think that healthcare is not a right of every American.

[annabanana]

10. Some of the biggest, best hospital complexes in the Country are in Texas!

Won't they lose out on a LOT of money with this move? Are they just going to sit there and take it?

[Wounded Bear]

12. I'm thinking those "biggest, best" hospitals.....

are counting more on out of state fly-ins of wealthy patients than MediCaid recipients.

[DFW]

13. Well, he can't touch any of our people, but there are another 2 million Texans he just fucked

My outfit takes GOOD care of it employees, and if our health insurance tries something funny, we get on their asses el rápido. But in Texas, that's just a couple of hundred people. We even kept one guy on our books six months after he was fired just so he could continue his health insurance due to the lousy situation in Texas. If it is left up to Perry, people will either die or leave, which appears to be pretty much what he is after.