Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder They rank last in health care, but empty headed loser Presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry won't do the right thing either when it comes to health care. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/texas-ranked-worst-nation-health-care-gov-t-agency-article-1.1109193" target="_blank">http://www.nydailynews.com/lif....1109193</a> <a href="http://consumerist.com/2012/07/texas-governor-says-no-to-medicaid-expansion.html" target="_blank">http://consumerist.com/2012/07...ion.html</a> "If anyone was in doubt, we in Texas have no intention to implement so-called state exchanges or to expand Medicaid under Obamacare," wrote Perry in a statement released Monday. "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. 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."
Originally Posted By Dabob2 The man is an idiot. Not that we didn't know this from the primary campaign. I suppose a case can be made for not expanding Medicaid. A weak case, but a case. The feds pick up the tab for the additional people completely the first couple of years, then it gradually goes down to 90% by 2020. So costs for Texas would go up a bit at that point, but it's still a pretty dang sweet deal for the states, if they're actually interested in covering more of their people. The bit about the exchanges is pure idiocy. The exchanges are only a mechanism for offering PRIVATE insurance, but giving more choices of private plans. Many states now have a monopoly or near-monopoly with just one or two insurers controlling most of the state. The exchanges increase competition as a way of making it more affordable - usually something conservatives crow about as a good thing. But Obama proposed it, so it must be bad, you see.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 So Texas, which already has the largest percentage of uninsured, is insisting on keeping more of its near-poor uninsured, and keeping private insurance more expensive than its citizens could get in other states. Rick Perry: Sooooooper Genius.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Thus Texas is shifting the burden of healthcare for the poor on to hospitals, doctors, and people and businesses who pay for health insurance.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer "I don't care how much health care is actually costing me just so long as the money is going to for-profit companies and not affecting CEO pay."
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Suggested new State Motto for Texas: "You want STUPID? We got STUPID!!"
Originally Posted By dshyates Looks like Perry is determined to keep the status quo on having the worst healthcare system in the United States. And Rick Scott here in FL closed the states only TB hospital after the CDC warned him of an impending TB outbreak. We now have the worst TB outbreak this country has seen for 50 years and our idiot Gov. CLOSED the frickin' TB hospital. OH MY FRICKIN' GOD DO I HATE THESE IDIOTS!
