Texas Health Care and ‘Gun Talk’
By now we are all very familiar with Rick Perry’s disdain for “ObamaCare” and with his “gun-to-the-head” refusal to expand Medicaid in a state that already ranks first in the nation when it comes to the rate of uninsured people and last in the nation when it comes to quality of health care.
Thus, any reasonable person would think that health care in Texas can only go in one direction and that is “get better.”
However, Perry in his amazingly arrogant and uniformed July 9 letter to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius startlingly claims, “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.”
In its Sunday editorial, the Editorial Board of Perry’s hometown newspaper, the Austin American-Statesman, has just the right words to describe Perry’s letter but, more importantly, the right logic and rationale to reject his “gun talk” on health care.
On the letter:
http://themoderatevoice.com/153215/texas-health-care-and-gun-talk/
