Folks in TX cannot earn more than $188/month to qualify for medicaid there. That should be enough to make any rationale people think twice before moving to TX, an to all those in TX, you are entitled to health care. You do not to die on the streets. Vote for your own well0being not those of the 1%.
Sorry, but Carl Rove and his cronies have locked up Texas for the uber rich for the next 25 years or more! He and his ilk are the most criminal element in America today.
bmallen Please provide the government statistics on what percentage of health care expenditures go towards illegals versus what percentage goes towards poor citizens. (Note most studies put it at less than 10%)
Again, why would any state opt in to the expanded Medicaid? If the stae does not set up the exchanges, the Feds will. And the feds are writing the rules for eligibility. The expanded rules will allow many more to buy insurance at the exchanges and recieve the Fed subsidies along with it. Many on Midicaid now will get more benefits by going to the exchanges. And all this on the Feds (yours and my) dime. There is no reason for any state to expand Medicaid given the federal subsidies contained in the ACA. This is what Roberts did to Obamacare. Now, let's see how the Feds are going to pay for it without States cooperation.
James A state may not opt in, but then the state will not obtain the benefit from the taxes that will be collected regardless of whether they are in or out. Since the Red states receive more federal monies than they pay out in federal taxes, it is not the normal model they currently follow.
Perry is simply mirroring the idiocy of a state political majority -- Republicans -- who have included (and vigorously defended) a plank in the 2012 state party platform opposing the teaching of critical thinking skills in public schools.
Republicans should beware they might get what they wish for, destruction of "Obamacare if Romney wins, crippling it if he doesn't. Though nearly 70% don't THINK they like it, they like most parts of it. The most important part they do not like is that it is not a single payer plan like all other major modern countries that rank higher in in health care for all not the few. They don't like an army of paper pushing insurers sucking billions from actual health care, cheating them in devious fine print etc. Any GOP plan will be pro insurance corporations, anti-real-people. So eventually the sleeping giant will awaken and demand single payer universal health care, sooner than if Obamacare wins.
Good for Gov. Perry! The last thing we need is more federal power. We need more state powers and less federal power. Let each state decide how to best deal with the issues in that state. Quality declines quickly the further you get away from the people you are governing. Let the people of each state find the path that works for them.
It is horrible that the republicans have completely stopped all attempts at governing. There answer to working with the democrats is to take their marbles and go home. The USA should be more important to either party - but no longer seems to be.
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