Showdown with Governors
[Perry: Texas won't expand Medicaid] "Texas Gov.
Rick Perry said Monday his state won't expand Medicaid or set up an
insurance exchange, joining a growing number of Republican governors who
are rejecting two key parts of President Obama's health care law.
"I will not be party to socializing health care and bankrupting my state
in direct contradiction to our Constitution and our founding principles
of limited government," Mr. Perry said.
He joins more than half-dozen GOP governors who have already said they
won't increase the size of their Medicaid programs to cover Americans up
to 133 percent of the poverty level, after the Supreme Court upheld most
of the law last month but said states could opt out of the Medicaid
expansion.
"I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the
Obamacare power grab," Mr. Perry said. "Neither a 'state' exchange nor
the expansion of Medicaid under this program would result in better
'patient protection' or in more 'affordable care.' They would only make
Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health
care."
Under the court's decision, states can still collect all of their
existing Medicaid funding even if they don't expand their programs to
cover Americans up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. But if
they don't set up exchanges, the law allows the federal government to
step in and run them."
Perry: Texas won't expand Medicaid
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Raising taxes should be a big campaign issue in the upcoming state elections."
Of course.
Recommended Reading:
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Obamacrats) by David Gelernter
"Do you think the democrats and Obama have the right to force your elected representatives to raise taxes?"
The court has said that they do have the right. States need to fight back.
