Cornyn, Cruz to join Perry to rally against Texas Medicaid expansion

[TexasTowelie]

Gov. Rick Perry and Texas’ two U.S. senators will join forces at the state Capitol on Monday to reassert their opposition to expanding Medicaid, a central tenet of federal health reform that has been a subject of much debate among state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

The details of the Monday morning press conference, which will also include representatives from the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a conservative think tank, are still being worked out. But a source involved in planning the event who wasn’t authorized to announce it said Perry and Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn will stand together to demand greater flexibility from the Obama administration to operate the state’s existing health care system for poor children and the disabled as Texas sees fit.

In a report released last week, TPPF suggested that Texas, which currently spends a quarter of its budget on Medicaid, could use a federal block grant to cut costs and fundamentally reform the program without expanding it. The group’s proposal includes using those federal block grant dollars to subsidize private health savings accounts so Medicaid recipients could manage and pay for their own health services.

Perry’s own desires for Medicaid reform closely mirror TPPF’s plan, and include a system of co-pays, deductibles and premium payments on a sliding scale for poor patients, using asset testing to ensure services are going to people who truly need them.

More at http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2013/03/cornyn-cruz-to-join-perry-to-rally-against-texas-medicaid-expansion/ .

[northoftheborder]

1. This is NOT good for Texas.

Texas has a very poor record on running public service programs.

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2. This will keep private insurance companies going using Texas taxpayer money even though we have

already paid for Medicaid through Federal Income Taxes. Your local Hospital District Taxes will increase in order to pay this unnecessary cost. Texas lawmakers want to go on as if the ACA was over turned. Cruz and Cornyn could NOT get the Obama Affordable Health Care Act over turned in Congress a few weeks ago even though they tried.

Taxpayers need to be told, that they are paying twice of Health Care for about 30% of the Texas population (those uninsured) and that insurance companies will get most of the money instead of their own Hospital Districts. This would be a good message to sent out to the public about the Republican Party Platform of private business vs. County government and services.

[ajain31]

3. Medicaid Expansion under Obamacare (ACA) in Texas

You or I do not have ANY control over Federal taxes. What all pay into Federal taxes is FIXED. We can not change it ANYWAY. If people understand that then it is easy to understand that some States are donor states and some states are recipient states. Most of the Southern States are recipient states by virtue of what they pay INTO Federal taxes (which is LESS) and what they receive as Federal support (which is MORE).

No state can change the State donor role or State recipient role overnight. Most Republican Governors are just loosing out in that they are refusing the Federal largess (the Federal handout) on Medicaid Expansion because Believe it or not IT IS A FACT: If states choose to expand Medicaid, the federal government will cover 100 percent of the costs from 2014 to 2016. The feds' contribution will begin to decrease in 2017, but will never be less than 90 percent, under the ACA also known as Obamacare.

So people opposing Medicaid Expansion can cry foul till their cows come back home but they will with their State be the looser in the long run. If history is correct it all started the same way for the very well established system of Medicare in this nation.

(Check it out!) Many states refused to accept Medicare in the 60's as a way of doing business just like they are rejecting Medicaid expansion under Obamacare a.k.a. ACA (Affordable Care ACT) but in the long run when Reagan got tired of appearing in anti-Medicare Ads all over the country Medicare was established as the way of doing business (taking care of our elder population's medical needs) and to this day it is an accepted wise and affordable way of supporting our Seniors.

Mark my words in less than a decade i.e. by 2023 Medicaid Expansion will be the accepted norm all over the country and NOT the EXCEPTION. You and I can not beat the economics of fairness. Try your best but within this decade either Governors who accept Medicaid Expansion will be elected or Governors who reject Medicaid Expansion will be DEFEATED.

And if Medicare is any example MEDICAID will go the same rout. I repeat, Mark my words in less than a decade i.e. by 2023 Medicaid Expansion will be the accepted norm all over the country. And I am saying that proudly as I do not find the need to hide my identity behind pseudonyms.

People opposing Medicaid Expansion have access to Google.com and I believe they are intelligent people. Check it out: IT IS A FACT: If states choose to expand Medicaid, the federal government will cover 100 percent of the costs from 2014 to 2016. The feds' contribution will begin to decrease in 2017, but will never be less than 90 percent, under the ACA.

That's why I created a petition to Governor Rick Perry, Texas Governor, The Texas State House, The Texas State Senate, and Governor Rick Perry, which says:

"Please ACCEPT the FREE EXPANSION of MEDICAID under The Affordable Care ACT."

Will you sign this petition? Click here:
http://signon.org/sign/accept-free-expansion?source=c.em.cp&r_by=7268737

Thanks!

Ajay Jain
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