Posted on 10/20/2011 8:36:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The question from GOP debate moderator Anderson Cooper on Tuesday night was about health care, specifically the high number of uninsured children in Texas. Gov. Rick Perry's answer decidedly was not.
After alluding to Houston's Medical Center, Perry pivoted to illegal immigration and a five-year-old charge that his chief rival for the GOP presidential nomination had hired undocumented immigrants to do his yard work.
It was not the first time the governor had ducked a question about the number of uninsured in Texas. Larry Kudlow asked him about it last week on MSNBC's Kudlow Report.
"Every person in Texas has access to health care, and I think that's an issue that all too often gets lost in the debate," Perry said. "The states have the decisions to make, whether or not they're going to have a wide-sweeping insurance program ..."
Perry's answer got to the heart of the matter as far as the governor is concerned. State's rights, he explained, trumps comprehensive health care.
"If a state wants to have a huge, expensive, all-encompassing Cadillac plan, that ought to be their call," he said. "But if a state like Texas decides we want to have the program that is less costly, has less coverage out there, but everyone in our state has access to health care, that ought to be our call, not somebody in Washington, D.C., making it."
Texas, through its elected leaders, has decided during Perry's tenure as governor to take the less costly, less coverage approach....
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
I know several people in TX who could get CHIP for their kids, but they don’t want to pay the fifteen dollars a month. They think it should be free. They think everything should be free, basically.
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Most of the problems are from too much gov't, not from too little (yeah, I know *duh*).
Couldn't they come up with a nursing program where if yada yada time was spent caring for the poor (in the USA), there could be a discount or some such on education?
I really think unleashing the nurses would be awesome and then move that leash over to lawyers
Heck, even Jimmy Carters mother did that, she couldn't get by with it today.
The fear of lawsuits and all the regulations have made a mess of healthcare!
They already have plans in many states with underserved areas. Physicans and NP’s can get some of their education costs forgiven if they serve in these areas for a set number of years. Nurse P’s working independently can do so in some states, but the states can set their own Nurse Practice Acts. Physician Assistants may NOT work independently in any state. Not sure what you mean about unnecessary regulations. However, licensing regulations, and other medical issues should not be eliminated. Additional all Health Departments should provide primary care, which would keep people out of ER’s.
Recently a Texan told me Texas does things they way it does because it believes people should still try to take care of themselves unless they truly cannot. He said if you don’t want to work, they don’t want you coming to Texas.
LoL, After I read your comment, I realized that none of the people who think their Kid's healthcare should be free are originally from TX. They are all move-ins..
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Americans know that the best prescriptions for their health care come from doctors—not government bureaucrats.
We need to roll back excessive government regulation to create a dynamic health care system that provides better access, lower costs, more innovation, and most importantly, greater freedom and quality in health care.
Some regulations governing our health care system are necessary for insuring safe and quality care.
But increasingly, health care regulations are business regulations: They dictate how health insurance and medical services can be bought and sold.
Indeed, government regulation of health care has extended far beyond basic safetystandards into near-total control of our health care system.
Regulations create winners and losers in our health care system, but also make our system more costly, less flexible, and less free.
Regulations Raise Costs
State governments have long regulated what services health insurance policies must cover.
As a result, in some states, non-smokers must carry insurance for quitting programs, and teetotalers must carry insurance for alcoholic rehabilitation.
They think it should be free.”
One of my doctor clients saw a kiddo last week who had CHIP coverage. The difference between the approved rate and the paid rate was $1.50 for their procedure. They spent an hour with the M.D. who will be reimbursed $63.00. Mom was told she needed to pay the $1.50. She had a hissy fit about how doctors were getting rich off of state payments and turned around and left, taking her child with her.
Amen. People should have the freedom to make choices and the responsibility to live with the choices they make.
“He said if you don’t want to work, they don’t want you coming to Texas.”
I wish that were U.S. immigration policy!
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