You knew that this was coming...Rick Perry says that Texas will not implement the Medicaid provisions of the Affordable Health Care Act. He'll show the federal government a thing or two, by cutting off the noses of several million Texans to spite somebody. He doesn't seem to have a clue that it's his constituents he's hurting the most.
Do you think that his reader didn't tell him the part about the years that the feds will pick up the entire bill? Did he not get the part about the state cap of ten percent? Who does he think contributes those federal dollars that he's going to allow to go to other states, which will continue to rank ahead of Texas in providing a high standard of health care for their citizens.
The state that boasts one of the nation's top health care facilities, ranks last in providing health care for its citizens, not just its poorest citizens. All of us. Under Governor Good Hair's guidance we will continue to send our uninsured to the ER for treatment and the cost will be passed along to those of us who have private insurance. That means that whatever pay raises we might have hoped for will only go to cover the rising cost of our private health insurance benefit.
Someone from the insurance lobby needs to tell Rick that the insurance companies want Obamacare; it will bring them lots of new customers. Maybe he's not getting big enough campaign contributions from the insurance companies, or maybe he isn't thinking about running again. Now that the Governor's Mansion is rebuilt, he and Anita probably aren't going to want to move back into government housing.
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