Rick Perry tells Obama and HHS to go **** themselves
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - 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.
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.
"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.
He sent a letter on Monday to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking her to relay the message to Obama that Perry opposes the provisions "because both represent brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state."
"I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the Obamacare power grab. Neither a 'state' exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under this program would result in better 'patient protection' or in more 'affordable care,'" said Perry, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race in January. "They would only make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care."
Perry, the longest-serving governor in Texas history, is a frequent critic of the Obama administration and the author of a book on states' rights called "Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America From Washington." Perry in 2009 rejected federal funding for unemployment benefits because accepting it would have required Texas to expand the number of people entitled to draw the benefits.
"To expand this program is like adding a thousand people to the Titanic," Perry said. "You don't expand a program that is not working already. If the federal government were serious about finding solutions, what they would do is block-grant those dollars back to the states, so states could find more efficient ways to deliver healthcare."
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Farnsworths take: BAM!
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All I care about is the house and senate. With 60 in the Senate and super majority in the house, Obama can just go on vacation, he'll be done. but I am realistic, I'll never underestimate the stupidity of the voters to put Obama back into office.
Learn some facts.
and bankrupting USA !!!!
"Rick Perry tells Obama and HHS to go **** themselves"
So now you admit Rick Perry really did not say that at all, am I correct?
Way to spin semantics!
Here is what he said:
In the ObamaCare plan, the federal government sought to force the states to expand their Medicaid programs by – in the words of the Supreme Court – putting a gun to their heads. Now that the “gun to the head” has been removed, please relay this message to the President: I oppose both the expansion of Medicaid as provided in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the creation of a so-called “state” insurance exchange, because both represent brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state.
I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the PPACA power grab. Thank God and our nation’s founders that we have the right to do so.
Neither a”state” exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under the Orwellian-named PPACA would result in better “patient protection” or in more “affordable care.” What they would do is make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care.
to me in a nutshell, he said go ****yourself.
if you can't grab that concept, I might could arrange a puppet show for you if you need a visual...
No child is being denied care in Texas, the health departments take VERY good care of all who go there. But DAMN, People need to stop breeding kids they cannot afford to provide food, clothing, shelter and basic needs for-WITHOUT welfare, food stamps, WIC, Sectio 8 housing and FREE TO THEM healthcare.
I will not argue the fact that sex education needs to be better, as well as the need to have quality families, not quantity
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the person below is a gutless coward. Insults and runs and hides behind a block. What a freaking PUSSY.