How Would President Perry Reform Health Care?
Gov. Rick Perry routinely attacks federal health care reform, calling it a massive overreach that intrudes into the lives of every American. But in the presidential contender’s early days on the campaign trail, he has revealed little about what his own “Perrycare” could look like — or how much changing American health care will figure into his candidacy.
Political strategists say, don’t hold your breath: Republican candidates talk very little about health care in primary campaigns because the issue isn’t a top priority for their voters, and because anything beyond hammering “Obamacare” could become a target for critics ...
Comments (16)
sssdddd
Texas style health care for all.
Texas has it all figured out and knows how to manage the human condition for the best life.
Give everyone a gun so they can shoot themselves when they are sick.
Texas style health care for all.
rollinson ford
The choice is simple: personal responsibility or government dictate!
Democrats want to create a ruling group that lives regally while forcing everyone outside the group into equal misery!
Republicans want to allow each person to find their own standard of living and level of misery or happiness!
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
if you look at Texas, Perry wants kids in S. Texas to have no running water, no electricity, no health insurance & no food. He's had 10 years to help folks in the colonias and he aint done shit
David Huang via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Big plans. Funny why he hasn't done a damned thing for the uninsured in Texas though.
Bill Carson
States don't have the political will to address health care reform.
Carlyn Short via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I hold Perry and his cronies personally responsible for taking my healthcare away from me. I paid in to the Teacher Retirement System for 17 years as a bus driver, driving five hours a week. Rules changed as of September 1, 2011 say I would have to drive 15 hours in order to be a "member" of TRS and eligible for healthcare. What a jerk
Kristina Marie Michel via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The term "Perrycare" is an oxymoron.
Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Well,give him time to memorize it,already! His think tank will come up with something.On the other hand,better than Mr.O,so I'm even thinking "The Devil I Know" is a good idea! Yikes!
Aldo Merino via Texas Tribune on Facebook
All hat, no cattle.
It's the same lip service we always hear, where it's simply a response simply to fill in the blanks.
The party doesn't believe in expanding access or lowering costs, and simply doesn't believe health care in general is a problem. The kind of nonsense he's proposing, if you can be so generous as to even call it a proposal, will certainly 'design solutions' but it'll be aimed at extracting every last dollar out of people and do nothing to curb health care inflation/expand costs.
Robert Adams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Free bandaids.
Thomas Darby
Perry's care of the environment does not look good. He wants to go back to the dark air polluted industrial cities. I am sure Pittsburg does not want to go back. The California Smog is still with us. Without the EPA it will just get worst. It is always hard to believe what a politician will do for money.
Martin Hyman via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry should start by donating his kidneys and liver.
patricia bird
Republicans want government off their back...except in cases of SS, Medicare/Medicaid and now - FEMA when fire rages in TX Gov Perry's crys foul for Obama not responding fast enough or with enough money...and the Governors yelling it is the government's duty to help with this new hurricane...appears they only want to pick which coverage would be best for THEM...i will never forget when it was discovered that the Republican party and their organization had to reveal that they covered abortions during the last presidental election...amazing...it is called hypocrisy with a capital R
Dangling Wrangler
Oh Lordy... explain to me right now how this ingenious plan PerryCare-less... of letting the states manage their own health care is any (even a little tiny bit), different than what has been previous possible - and we might just remind all the boys and girls out there that hasn't worked to lower costs or stem the greed from the highset price healthcare in the world, but far from the best!
Excuse me, but I've been blinded the light that the smoke and mirrors absolutely nothing happening here to cause one to think Perry has done any critical thinking beyond the health industry lobbyist position papers he was told to produce sound bites on.
One must remember nothing in Rick Perry's public history that Rick Perry and/or his friends or donors hasn't benefitted from - and NOBODY else ! I rest my case...
Thomas Darby
When the voter enters the voting booth he should be well informed. I hope articles like this one continue to be produced. We need a collective search for wisdom to elect Representatives and especially Presidents. The propaganda written and paid for by PAC-Money has ruled the country and caused the problems, like the recession. The talking heads on TV and the news media need to point out the falsehoods contained in the propaganda.
Stuart Greenfield
my assumption is that Gov. Perry will implement policies that would make health care in the U.S. more like what we have in TX. Having 1/4 of the U.S. population w/out health care is something I'm sure everyone would find desirable.