Posted on 08/10/2011 1:46:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
July 18, 2011:
"With the signature of Gov. Rick Perry today, Texas has joined three other states stating their intention to enter into a health care compact.
The compact, which would challenge the authority of the federal government to dictate the terms of the federally and state funded Medicaid program, was part of a wide-ranging health care reform bill, Senate Bill 7, passed by the Texas Legislature in its recently concluded special session.
Georgia, Oklahoma and Missouri have already signed onto the compacts movement, with Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signing a bill into law on Thursday.
The law establishes Texas, along with the other three states, as pioneers in an uncharted use of Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution which allows states to enter into agreements that, with the approval of Congress, cannot be abridged by the federal government. There are more than 200 state compacts currently in effect, nearly all of them related to commerce.”…..
(Excerpt) Read more at texaswatchdog.org ...
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August 8, 2011 Kansas returns health insurance exchange grant WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Kansas became on Tuesday the second U.S. state to return a large federal grant meant to help it create a prototype health insurance exchange as part of the Obama administration's healthcare overhaul.
Republican Governor Sam Brownback said the state would give back the $31.5 million it received from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to become an early leader, along with six other states, in establishing health care insurance exchanges that other local government could use as a model.
Exchanges are meant to provide an open marketplace of competing insurance plans that allow uninsured people and small businesses to band together to negotiate cheaper rates.
Kansas's move brings the total amount of the returned exchange-related federal grants to almost $90 million as Republican governors seek to block implementation of the healthcare law supported largely by Democratic lawmakers.....
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July 16, 2011: Romney Adviser Backs Obama Health Exchanges
Speaking to a bipartisan group of governors at the National Governors Association, the former Republican governor who served as secretary of health and human services in the Bush administration, called the exchanges where individuals and small businesses can purchase health plans “a very practical solution to a problem that needs to be solved.” He warned governors who are reluctant to move forward with their state-level exchanges that their intransigence will only empower federal regulators....
The federal law gives the states until January 2014 to set up their own exchanges, with federal oversight. If they fail to do so, their citizens will get access to a federal exchange.
But some Republican governors have been reluctant. They oppose the federal law and say they hope it will be repealed by a Republican president in 2013.
give perry credit for this. if we take control of congress (my reading of the constitution) next year. this compact can be approved! i.e., we don’t need obama.
this is a great idea i never heard of before and should be pushed by the states to the nth degree.
Gov. Rick Perry said "no" to competing in "Race to the Top." Texas Knows Best How to Educate Our Students
But Rep. Shelia Jackson-Lee and her Democratic Party wanted Perry's signature so the "money would flow to our schools within days."
Gov. Perry sued for Texas' money (without Washington telling us how to spend it) -- And won! Promise Kept.
LOL.... That would be “poke in the chest.”...
I'm sure Gov Perry (serving 2nd stint as Chairman of the Republican Governors Association) has helped circulate this to other states.
Also: Perry's highlighting education reform and ideas to other governors too.
I think if Perry gets in Romney may as well pack up, he’s done.
Perry is NOT going to get Romney in. Did you read any of the thread above?
YOU are correct!
I guess we haven’t discussed Perry’s DISTORTED view of the 10th Amendment yet and gay marriage, have we?
I forgot to bring that one up during our lively talk yesterday.
(those things happen when you pull from the same batch of talking points every day)
Ping
“Are you now admitting you’re getting boringly repetitious? ;p “
No more so than you guys...that’s what’s great about this forum.
As long as the info is factual and not some twisted BS, I agree.
Unfortunately, some your party continually step over that line.
“Unfortunately, some your party continually step over that line.”
Such as...
I just caught someone on that very thread stating Perry worked for ALGORE after he became a Repub.
That’s a blatant lie.
The half truths and sound byte clips are nothing more than a journalistic deceptions. Give me a break.
We have a lot a stake here in 2012.
“I just caught someone on that very thread stating Perry worked for ALGORE after he became a Repub.
That’s a blatant lie.”
I’m with you on that - probably a shill for another candidate (I just want a conservative that I don’t need to watch over my shoulder every 5 minutes).
I usually mention (until this week that is, now that I’m getting lazy) that Gore was at least a moderate in 1988. I remember him back then...and I don’t what the hell happened to him.
If you heard Gore’s latest rant...he’s gone friggin insane.
(and I hope we helped)
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