Right. So he sought a big government solution to a problem that rightly should have been left to the people. Why not just mandate that government (taxpayers) pick up the tab for whatever else people can't afford? Did it ever occur to "small government" Perry to let private charitable foundations handle the relatively small number of cases where folks truly couldn't afford the $380 vaccines?
It wasn’t a relatively small number of cases where folks couldn’t afford it. Hispanics in Texas are a majority not a minority. And that majority, in Texas, has a very high rate of teen pregnancy, which means many young Hispanic girls are having sexual intercourse instead of practicing abstinence and are at high risk for contracting HPV.
Even so, Perry understands that he made the wrong decision. And ultimately, the EO was overturned and young girls were not vaccinated by force against their parents’ wishes.