TX: Bexar County Judge Wolff slams Perry's Medicaid stand

San Antonio Express News ^ | July 11, 2012 | Nolan Hicks

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff attacked Gov. Rick Perry's decision to reject federal matching funds to expand Medicaid eligibility Tuesday, saying it would put more pressure on the county's public hospital system and strained budgets.

He said the University Health System, which runs the county's public hospitals, might explore teaming with other public hospital systems in the state to access the federal money and expand healthcare coverage locally.

“The Legislature will have some final say in it. They may come up with a different solution, so we have some time to figure it out.” Wolff said. “It's important to put no additional burden on local taxpayers.”

Perry, who met Tuesday with executives from hospitals around Texas, “believes flooding an already broken system with thousands of additional Texans, as an expansion under Obamacare would do, is neither responsible nor sustainable,” Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed said. She declined to comment on Wolff's idea.

[NTHockey]

So, we are supposed to be loyal subjects while some nameless, faceless bureaucrat redefines what an unqualified medical tech can do in place of a doctor.

And when they tell you that you have outlived your usefulness and won’t get any more health care, I suppose that you will obediently comply and gleefully have your life terminated.

I REFUSE to accept slavery. I was born a free man and I will die as one.

[Truth29]

"And when they tell you that you have outlived your usefulness and won’t get any more health care, I suppose that you will obediently comply and gleefully have your life terminated."

Did you read the rest of the paragraph?

[PapaBear3625]

Practising medicine without a license is a crime in most states, I believe. It won’t make any difference to the regime, but the fool that gets caught won’t think it’s funny when he’s sharing a cell with Bruno and Hans Erich.

What state laws mandate can be changed in a day by changing the laws. As it stands, nurses are doing more and more. Advanced-care (masters-degree) nurses have been administering anesthesia, writing prescriptions, delivering babies, and doing many other tasks that otherwise would be done by doctors.

[Jedidah]

Not really. He’s County Judge, a title that does not accurately reflect his duties, which are primarily administrative.

Look, the whole healthcare system is a mess, and will get much worse under Obamacare. This guy is flooded with Mexicans, who aren’t insured but who aren’t turned away, either. It’s killing his county, and I don’t blame him for speaking up.

Don’t agree with him, but don’t blame him for mouthing off. We all feel frustrated.