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Posted on 07/09/2012 7:07:47 PM PDT by tobyhill
Governor Rick Perry said on Monday Texas will not implement an expansion of the Medicaid program or create a health insurance exchange, placing the state with the highest percentage of people without insurance outside key parts of President Barack Obama's signature law.
The announcement makes Texas the most populous state that has rejected the provisions. Some 6.2 million people are without health insurance in Texas, or 24.6 percent of the state population, the highest percentage in the nation. California has more people without insurance but a lower percentage.
Perry joined fellow Republican governors of Florida, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Mississippi and Louisiana in rejecting the two provisions of the law, according to americanhealthline.com. They hope that November elections will result in Republicans winning the White House and enough seats in Congress to repeal the law.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
They would have to vacate their own ruling and rule that states must expand Medicaid.
Nice.
"Wise Latinas" specialize in that stuff.
>> placing the state with the highest percentage of people without insurance outside key parts of President Barack Obama’s signature law.
No detectable bias there, eh? :-)
Good for our Governor, though!
As an aside... how I wish Gov. Perry, and not mittens, was to be running against Barky.
But, as they say down here, wish in one hand and spit in the other and see which one fills up the fastest. :-(
I'm sure this is a silly question, but what percentage of Texas citizens are without medical insurance? Why do I suspect that it is a whole lot less than 24.6%?
It's just insurance the feds are cramming down our throats... doesn't matter what we want mind you. It'll be their way only. Aholes.
And you prove in one question why no intelligent person trusts the MSM. One simple question and the media ran past it.
As simple as asking for college transcripts of Obama, or how did he get a Connecticut SSN.
The media won’t ask how many Citizens are uninsured, beccause that number is very low. Illegals swarm our ERs and absorb out welfare. So expect that to never be answered.
Don’t know the answer to your questions, but...
27% of Texans are under18.
“Why do I suspect that it is a whole lot less than 24.6%?”
Cause you’re forgettin a whole big ole segement of the “population”.
Bingo ... we have a winner, the word is “citizens”. The expansion of Medicaid was written expressly to cover illegal or undocumented or Mexicans or South Americans or whatever the hell you want to call them. Once you expand Medicaid, you can never go back and the Feds will (guaranteed) change the rules and decrease the funding. Look at the idiot states that grabbed the money lure to expand their unemployment insurance program .... they are deeply in debt to the Feds and can’t go back. For that percentage without Medicaid in Texas, please take a good look at moving to a state such as Mass, Il.,Californicate, NY, etc. to take care of your needs. They are states that are losing population and would love to have you.
Encourage everyone to go to the link and read the statements, such as:
“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,” Perry said in a statement.
>> I’m sure this is a silly question, but what percentage of Texas citizens are without medical insurance?
Or medical care? Probably none.
The numbers Reuters claims likely reflects illegals.
” - - - Some 6.2 million people are without health insurance in Texas, or 24.6 percent of the state population, the highest percentage in the nation. California has more people without insurance but a lower percentage.”
SO WHAT!!!!!???????????????
The State and Federal Governments have nothing to do with insurance or delivering Medical procedures.
The Government exists to govern, not go into the cesspool of unlimited debt creation to “help” people.
I wanna move to Texas...
Based on first hand observance and experience in the health field in our part of Texas, you can make a WHOLE LOT of money by just seeing Medicaid patients for health and dental care. Lots of really wealthy dentists whose very busy practices are based primarily on income from Medicaid. It’s generally the Black and Hispanic kids in grade schools who have the perfect teeth. Rest of them, not so much because dental insurance for the rest of us is very expensive.
No one even knows for sure how many people we have in Texas any more because of the open border so whatever number they use should be considered bogus.
If you would get rid of just the restaurants and buildings where health/dental care of some sort is provided and just those people that work in these two areas, this would be a very desolate state.
You Got IT!
The Constitution has nothing to do with health care or insurance.
The “general welfare” clause is just that- a clause but not an Article. Nothing binding there.
To hell with these twisters!
That was one positive of the ruling. The Roberts court protected the states from coercion by the Feds. Wish that would happen in a hundred other cases.
Indeed. The Federal Government wants to force Texas to spend more money on health AND education, although much of the burden is owing to the presence of non-citizens.
The Federal Government does not have the police power, at least not on given by the Constitutions, but Roberts would have us believe there is. A state can require health insurance, which is Romney’s best defence of what he did. But as the United States is not a unitary state, nor a monarchy like Canada and the UK, nothing in the Constitution gives the Congress such a power.
I agree with your assessment.
The individual States could require it under the 10th; but that is hardly the issue...
What a mess!
Thanks!
Have you noticed that Liberals in “both” parties always gravitate to the most unsolvable problems? And the longest lived tax opportunity?
Teenage smoking, (Zipper-Boy), Hilly”care,” etc.
Liberals have long been infatuated with Parliamentary Government, because they long for centralized power. Parliamentary government is really monarchy whether there is a crowned head or not. The French Republic is monarchical even though it has no king. Canada and Australia are monarchies and will be even if they no long recognize the Queen. Our States are different in concept and history than Canadian provinces. One reason why Texas is so hated is that we HAVE a strong sense of separate identity, as Virginia and others once had. Liberals hate this, because they want to make Washington the Paris of America.
The difference is that Massachusetts has the legitimate authority to do such a thing. Congress does not: yet, the Chief Justice has just said they do.
Maybe they will still say no! The supreme wimps are not the final say of our nations policies! Never were meant to be.
Well, it may be bad policy and still be law. That is why Scalia mentioned slavery in connection with the Arizona case. It may have been bad policy, but even Lincoln acknowledged that a state had a right to institute it.
Well, in “Casey” the Court just basically said that Blackmun’s opinion was piss poor. But they chose not to overturn the DECISION. A majority of the Court could still decide to reverse the decisions and somehow just ignore what Roberts has said. Of course, with him on the Court, if they did reverse without his consent, he might as well resign. I think the SOB hopes that the dissenters will soon disappear. He has a vested interest in Obama’s reelection and/or his succession by a non- conservative.
Good.
Thank you Perry! Now I can tell the Feds to stuff it if they try to force me to pay for abortion and contraception! :D
This was the very polite version of Texas saying cram it up your cram hole. Now if we don't win in November and repeal Obama care we might hear a less polite version of that message.
It might go something like this. Obama care STOPS at the border of Texas. Accept this kindly or we might just deal with you the same way we deal with a foolish batter that charges the mound.
Speaking the truth is not the same as arguing for it. A state can do anything allowed in its state constitution. It's the federal government that is limited by the US constitution. That's simply a fact.
Unfortunately, Texas in the only state with authority to do all of this. The Republic of Texas, a soverign nation, joined the Union with a treaty. It was the only state to do so. The treaty says that it can also leave if it wants to.
Aaaahhh,never mind.Arguing with you is like arguing with my pet goldfish.Same result.
P.S.,Osama Obama sends hugs and kisses.
Because you are not stupid.
What the article doesn't tell you is that the illegals they are counting in this bogus staticstic are not even covered by the law, and in fact, are specifically exempted. (So as to make them even more cost competitive against actual citizens.
Hopefully by then we will have the balls & guns to tell Traitor Roberts & friends where they can stick their unconstitutional edicts.
Liberty or Death!
“”Some 6.2 million people are without health insurance in Texas, or 24.6 percent of the state population, the highest percentage in the nation.”
I’m sure this is a silly question, but what percentage of Texas citizens are without medical insurance? Why do I suspect that it is a whole lot less than 24.6%?”
Whether there is a distinction or not, I am one of that 6.2 million and I wish to stay that way until I choose,(not the government) otherwise!
A man has the right to decide how to spend his own money, and manage(or not manage) his own health.
Indeed looking at the obesity rates in Texas and the rest of these united States it seems rather clear that that many of us prefer to live with more health risk.
Y’all can go to hell Washington! I’ve gone to Texas where freedom still means something.
States are feel to make bad choices. Don’t confuse what they ought to do with what they are allowed to do. The freedom is circumscribed by the the Constitution and nowadays by a domineering central government. Much of this is the fault of the states themselves, because of the bad choices they make. Too often they failure to do their main duty, which is to guard the rights of their citizens.
During the first ten years after I left collage, I had health insurance for less than 3 three, two of which I was in grad school. Never felt the need, because medical care was not that expensive. Plus I was healthy.
Further, providing for the "general welfare" means doing things which don't benefit any identifiable person in particular, but rather the public at large. If the government builds a road connecting two large cities, such a road will--if it is well conceived--offer benefits not only to the inhabitants of those cities, but also anyone who wishes to purchase goods which can be most efficiently delivered via that route, or whose constituent components are most efficiently delivered via that route, etc. By contrast, if the government gives James Q. Smith a check for $100 in exchange for not working, it's hard to see how that could offer any substantial benefit to anyone other than James Q. Smith and perhaps his family (and of course, dependency may mean that the money does more harm than good, even to him and his).
My approach is that on 11/6 I'll be voting for a guy who,although noticeably "imperfect",will receive at least some,and very possibly the majority,of the Electoral votes cast in December.Furthermore this man will harm me and my family at least somewhat less,and very possibly much less,than America's first unashamedly Communist President will.
You,OTOH,will be voting for some guy who won't even merit an asterisk in the final report issued by the Electoral College later this year.
And trust me when I assure you that if you call your posts to the attention of David Axelrod he'll *personally* make sure that you get the opportunity to spend a night of passionate lovemaking with Moochelle out of gratitude for your "principled" stand.I can just imagine those sloppy kisses now.But do make sure you get yourself tested after your night of bliss.
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