(Community Matters) I don’t know what this means for the millions of Texans who were looking forward to purchasing health care insurance affordably in 2014
FIRST LOOK: Texas Gov. Rick Perry, in a letter today to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, will announce his opposition to implementing a health-insurance exchange AND expanding Medicaid. Perry will write : “[W]e in Texas have no intention to implement so-called state exchanges or to expand Medicaid under Obamacare, 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. 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.’ They would only make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care.”
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So much for Texas’s branding itself as good for business.
Seriously, this is not good for very small businesses, which have a hard time getting insurance.
I’m not talking about the type of VC-backed tech firms that Eugene and the ABJ get excited about. Those people can get insurance. I mean the Free Agent Nation of independent consultants, sales reps, etc. and part-timers we keep hearing about as a wave of the future. Those people have it much harder out there when it comes to insurance. And if this type of work arrangement is the future, we need to adapt to it as a society. HCR is one small step.
WE DESERVE THE GOVERNMENT WE GET BY NOT VOTING: Despite being the state with highest rate of uninsured in the USA, Gov. Perry rejects $100 million in Federal funds,as well as online marketplace for consumers to comparison shop for healthcare insurance. Rest assured the Guv has sufficient medical coverage — that we taxpayers provide for him — to reattach his nose after he cuts it off to spite the “less wealthy” majority of Texans.