Debra Medina Talks Health Care
Former gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina took her free market politics to the Texas Senate on Thursday. On the tea party's version of Christmas — tax day — she engaged in a lively debate with lawmakers on the Health and Human Services Committee over health insurance reform, and how the state regulates health care.
“I support moving 'paying for quantity' toward 'paying for quality,'” said Medina, a registered nurse. “But I believe we’ve got to resist this effort to tell the private sector what that is.”
Lawmakers fired back — relatively pleasantly. “Should we have any rules? Or should we just say ...
Comments (11)
Luis Vela Guevara via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Pen-de-ja.
Tiffany Hamburger Becker via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Luis, really? Calling her a dumbass has convinced me! I'm sorry I wasted the time to read the article, since I have the benefit of your incisive and germane analysis!
Daniel Day via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Every time I hear from the tea party, I hear how government is too big and the private sector does a better job. But last year at the tea party in front of the Alamo, I heard the opposite: how bad private toll roads are.
Maybe somebody can help me out here and explain why the proposed private toll road along U.S. 281 and other Texas freeways are a bad idea?
TxDOT doesn’t do a good job. It’s a government bureaucracy that is failing and yet its solution to the problem is Cintra, a private corporation.
I hear from TPM, Tea Party Movement all the time on how the private sector is the answer to a lot of government waste. So why do the TPM members of San Antonio go against their own advice when it comes to fixing highway congestion here.
What other advice are they offering that is contradictory?
Diane Holloway via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Si, Luis. Pendeja. And Sarah Palin will be here in two weeks. It's a pendeja invasion!!
Evelyn White via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Debra Medina... like Sarah Palin.... just won't go away.
Irene Solnik via Texas Tribune on Facebook
OMG! Hide your animals
Bob Brown via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Daniel. I am not a tea party person but the reason I don't want freeways that were paid for with our tax dollars converting to private hands should be obvious.
But other reasons are for exactly the reasons the interstate system and the state roads were built in the first place. National and state security. I don't want our transportation to be controlled and owned by a private company which we do not have direct control of especially if that company is a foreign owned and operated company like Cintra.
If you want to build new roads with out tax payer money or the use of eminent domain then go for it but leave our necessary thoroughfares in the publics hands please. I don't need an Enron or a Goldman Sachs responsible for the roads that keep us safe and prosperous.
eamartinez
Health is not a widget.
Jesus B Ochoa via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Dammit, Luis, if you're going to do it, do it right. She is not only a pen-de-ja (you forgot a couple of jas) but a phosporescent one, being one of my favorite varietes, because their pendejism is so splendidly defined that they even glow at night.
adrianwainer
My view is Debra Medina is menace, either because she is hugely incompetent or she subscribes to some filthy political ideology like Stalinist communism or neo-Nazism. The stuff which goes on in the Facebook page.
Debra Medina
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Debra-Medina/95669721909?ref=ts#!/pages/Debra-Medina/95669721909?v=wall&ref=ts
is disgraceful beyond belief and whilst I find the stream of filth that Dr Alan D Price PhD spews dressed up in psychobabble merely offensive and pathetic, a young college student subjected to that sort of stuff, could up killing themselves.
" If I were the president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a few days. Permanently. I would first apologize -- very publicly and very sincerely -- to all the widows and the orphans, the impoverished and the tortured, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism. I would then announce that America's global interventions -- including the awful bombings -- have come to an end. And I would inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of the union but – oddly enough – a foreign country. I would then reduce the military budget by at least 90% and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims and repair the damage from the many American bombings and invasions. There would be more than enough money. Do you know what one year of the US military budget is equal to? One year. It's equal to more than $20,000 per hour for every hour since Jesus Christ was born. That's what I'd do on my first three days in the White House. On the fourth day, I'd be assassinated. "
which is a quote from the author William Blum and which was posted by another poster and Dr Price commended in a posting in the thread it was posted in on the Debra Medina Facebook page. My suspicion is that persons whose views are diametrically opposed to the ethos of the US constitution and who very possibly are left-wing Fascistocommunists or right-wing neo-Nazis are assuming a conservative camouflage on that Debra Medina page and are pretending to support responsible gun ownership by US citizens and other reasonable public stances endorsed by Ms Medina as a tool to infiltrate the Tea Party movement and utilize it to attack the security of the freedoms that President Reagan sought to defend in the following videoclip.
Ronald Reagan - A Time for Choosing (October 27, 1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pbp0hur9RU
McKenna Welsh via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That woman needs to go away. She lost miserably. Give it up already. Yuk.