Rick Perry Is Actually Encouraging Texans To Enroll In Obamacare
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 30th, 2013
Good morning!
There are some mornings where my life is so full that I don’t have more than a moment to do my blog…or even eat for that matter. This is one of those mornings.
From Think Progress:
Rick Perry Is Actually Encouraging Texans To Enroll In Obamacare
BY IGOR VOLSKY
ON OCTOBER 17, 2013 AT 12:58 PM
After years of trying to undermine the Affordable Care Act, Texas lawmakers are suddenly embracing President Obama’s signature domestic policy accomplishment. On Thursday, the Texas Tribunereported that the state is shuttering a state-based health care program and encouraging Texans to sign-up for coverage in the federally-run health care exchange.
Texas’ high risk pool program, which opened in 1998, provides coverage to individuals and families with pre-existing conditions who couldn’t find insurance in the individual health care market. But since the ACA’s exchanges began enrolling beneficiaries, the state deemed the program obsolete, arguing that Texans could find a better deal in the federally-run exchange:
The state has deemed the high-risk pool obsolete, as the Affordable Care Act prohibits insurance companies participating in the federal marketplace, which launched on Oct. 1, from denying coverage to Texans with pre-existing conditions. Gov. Rick Perry signed Senate Bill 1367 in June, scheduling the pool’s abolishment.
The pool will close Jan. 1, and the 23,000 people currently participating in the pool must sign up for coverage on the insurance exchange by Dec. 15 or find coverage elsewhere to avoid a lapse in care.
The shift may help beneficiaries — state health experts project that “people are going to have many more options and many better options in the marketplace ” — but it undermines Gov. Rick Perry’s (R-TX) entire health care philosophy and contradicts the GOP’s claim that states are best suited to take care of their uninsured populations.
Throughout the 2012 presidential campaign, for instance, Perry supported complete repeal of the Affordable Care Act and suggested that states should take the lead in crafting health care policy. “If we can get the federal government out of our business in the states when it comes to health care, we’ll come up with ways to deliver more health care to more people cheaper than what the federal government is mandating today,” Perry said during a 2011 GOP primary debate. Two years later, he appears to have changed his mind.
UPDATE
In June, Perry also signed a Republican-backed bill that requires the Texas Department of State Health Services to inform individuals applying for certain state health services about “private health care insurance coverage and the health insurance exchange.”
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October 30th, 2013 at 6:22 pm
It’s so bad in Saudi Arabia that you’re encouraged indirectly to do something defferent to bring awareness to the issue!
October 30th, 2013 at 6:29 pm
That video has gone viral with more than 6 million people viewing it. It came out the same day many Saudi women filmed themselves driving in organized protest. Some have uploaded videos of themselves doing so (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0m4q3Mq5eE&feature). If the people are talking about the social issue, it is a good thing I think. It is change.
November 1st, 2013 at 10:18 pm
Perry is just an idiot. If Texas goes Republican again, I will have very little sympathy. You know what they say, “Once a victim, twice a volunteer.”
November 1st, 2013 at 10:19 pm
It would be nice, but the great state of Texas is not participating in the program. Even though the Federal Government is funding the Medicaid portion, Texas is not participating in the program. So silly.
November 1st, 2013 at 10:20 pm
Watch Ted Cruz’ Insane Daddy: Send Obama ‘Back To Kenya’ Anoint Ted Cruz ‘Jesus Christ’…or Something
November 1st, 2013 at 10:21 pm
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a sweeping anti-abortion law in Texas, following a lower court’s previous ruling that key measures of it were unconstitutional.
A panel of three judges, all of whom were appointed by former president George W. Bush, reversed the ruling from Judge Lee Yeakley which stated that under the new law many Texas abortion providers:
November 1st, 2013 at 10:24 pm
After years of trying to undermine the Affordable Care Act, Texas lawmakers are suddenly embracing President Obama’s signature domestic policy accomplishment.
On Thursday, the Texas Tribune reported that the state is shuttering a state-based health care program and encouraging Texans to sign-up for coverage in the federally-run health care exchange.
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November 1st, 2013 at 10:27 pm
Forget it. Women will never be allowed to drive in Saudi. It is an offense to God.
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