The Evening Brief: Texas Headlines for July 9, 2012
New in The Texas Tribune:
- Perry: Texas Won't Implement Key Elements of Health Reform: "Texas will not expand Medicaid or establish a health insurance exchange, two major tenets of the federal health reform that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld last month, Gov. Rick Perry said in a Monday morning announcement. … Perry's office said that while the governor knows the Medicaid expansion issue is 'one he will have to work with the Legislature on,' it was important to him to voice his opposition. 'He will fight in the upcoming Legislature to ensure it is not expanded,' his office ...
Comments (23)
Jim Batchelor via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That money comes with strings
Judy Burns via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A lot of people with limited access to health care are going to be more desperate than normal. Way to go, Good Hair.
Jim Batchelor via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Judy, the federal government is basically offering money we've already paid in plus money taken from China and our kids. Hell no. We can handle it ourselves and if someone wants something we don't offer, move. That would be the Constitutional action.
Bruce Davis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This visceral hatred for the President is tangible in every move Perry makes; it makes me ashamed to live in Texas even after the 8 years of W Bush. So Obama enacts the Republican Health care plan designed by the Heritage Foundation and they hate him for it?
Elizabeth Monique Duran via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Wow! I guess people do wanna be ruled and controlled! IT'S a free country people need to decided on their own what's important or not. Parents need to get jobs and stope living from the government! People need to start taking responsibilty for their actions which may result with no back up plan! Get a job, ins. Etc... Not get knock up from one dude then another and expect the gornement to be held resposible for your poor choices! (speaking in genereal) Now the elderly should not be placed in the same category, they've lived they've worked they need to be taken care of..
Terri Russo Daugherty via Texas Tribune on Facebook
How on earth is it legal for anyone to get between me and the federal benefits I have earned? The state has no dog in this fight as MY money is due me. When will the feds just skip the middle man and pay me directly?
Ed Jime via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Uh, the health care plan is making people take responsibility, from the state government to the people required to get health insurance. Now here is the question for all you people that can't fathom things, why is Rick Perry against the Exchange program? I'll tell you why, it creates a one place for all Texans to see plans and prices, creating competition in prices, and his insurance buddies don't want that.
Ed Jime via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And, I'll even give you more points, the health care exchange idea was a conservative idea, the health care plan is mostly conservative ideas, and almost exactly the plan Romney "forced" on the people of Mass., and they love it. The federal government was going to return OUR taxes to help the state of Texas to set up OUR own exchange, OUR way, and help pay for the really poor that will be on medicaid for the first few years. I know many people in Texas aren't the brightest, considering the education scores of Texas, but it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that allowing people to use the ER as their doctor for free, costs more.
Patsy Painter Hull via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Key words in this statement are "speck of intelligence"...obviously not a strong suit of our gov or did no one watch the primary debates?
Bruce Davis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
To quote the former editor of The Onion after the Supreme Court upheld The Affordable Health Care Act, "THE REPUBLICANS WILL STILL FIND A WAY TO CRUSH THE POOR.'
Steve Munday via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Nice comment from those always on the government teat, mentally and physically. It's Free! It's Free!
Curtis McMinn via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If Texas was handling "it" itself, we wouldn't have the problems we are having.
Bruce Davis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Intelligence and critical thinking are no longer valued in this state, at least according to the GOP platform.
Renee E. Babcock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Well, no one has ever accused Perry of having a speck of intelligence.
Mary Muna via Texas Tribune on Facebook
whatever, it is Perry's fault their are so many immigrant babies on medicaid and giving the parents housing and food stamps. if they stop approving housing and foodstamps for illegal migrants using children as protection, they would go home. they dont want citizenship, just the freebies!
Bruce Davis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Remember when the GOP used just hate TAX A CHUSES when the Kennedy's were running things and they talked about the liberal eastern harvard educated elite? Don't hear that much any more now do ya...
James Billington via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He can grandstand all he wants now, but when the Federal government writes that big check to the state of Texas, Perry will gleefully take it.. He will have no choice. This state is a mess when it comes to the uninsured. He will never be able to rationally explain to the people why he would turn down such badly needed assistance. I've heard Texas politicians argue it would be better for Texas to set up their own health exchange instead, but that is not a realistic argument. Obamacare is a done deal. It just needs to be implemented. Perry and his administration have no desire to help the uninsured, no matter what they say. If they cared so much it wouldn't be such an epidemic. They have had many opportunities over the years to do something, but they would rather spend their time and resources fighting against the inevitable, which is The Affordable Care Act.
Bruce Davis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
<Mary Muna...they are already going home...2011 was the first year there was net zero in immigration by undocumented workers.
Kaye Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Guy - speck of intelligence? Really. What a continued embarrassment he is to Texas.
Carlyn Short via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I guess we know who doesn't have a speck of intelligence, or compassion, or ...
Ted McKnight via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Just curious. Where does "federal" get these dollars?
Jody Rozecki Farris via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This is infuriating!
Bernard Walter via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Governor OOPS and his Rethuglican buddies don't want any person who now can't afford health insurance to have it. Period. No Medicaid, no help getting insurance.