Posted on 11/19/2011 12:17:32 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
It’s a perennial complaint from Texas Gov. Rick Perry: The federal government places far too many restrictions on how states can run Medicaid, the entitlement program that provides health care to low-income Americans. “We know for a fact that, given that freedom, the states can do a better job of delivering health care,” Perry said in a Republican debate last month. He’s endorsed turning the entitlement program into a block grant and flirted with having Texas drop out of it altogether.
But back in Texas, Perry is actually pursuing a highly technocratic and pragmatic attempt at Medicaid reform that doesn’t much resemble the policy he’s floated in his presidential run. He is currently negotiating a waiver with the Obama administration that would net the state increased Medicaid funding if providers could hit certain performance metrics agreed to by the federal government. It’s an approach that has pleased just about everyone involved, from Medicaid advocates to major hospitals.
“As an advocate, if this is done reasonably well, it could be requiring more from hospitals for what they’re doing,” says Anne Dunkelberg of the Center for Public Policy Priorities. “It wouldn’t just be a cash cow. Hospitals would have to deliver care to the uninsured and have to participate in some payment and delivery reforms.
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......But from hospitals to Medicaid advocates, there’s a surprisingly high level of agreement on what the waiver would do: bring in more Medicaid dollars to Texas. As for Perry, it shows a political side rarely seen in his presidential debate performances: pragmatic and technocratic, a leader who can craft a deal that brings together just about every disparate health-care interest in the Lone Star State.
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LOL Cain is a faux conservative, a political neophyte which makes him a 100% empty suit.
This is a note on the Tyler Planned Parenthood door. This due to Perry and the Legislature defunding it. This is called walking the walk. Cain can agree abortion should not be part of the political discussion. He can call abortion a social decision but Gov. Perry puts his money where his mouth is. This is just another reason why he should be President.
By the way this is the 13th Texas planned parenthood to do this.
Given that Herman Cain has never served in an elective office how can you say that he’s 100 percent conservative? I’d argue that his Opportunity Zones are, at best, moderate.
Oh, btw, Rick Perry does not support illegal aliens.
Just look at this case, it's a waiver they've been negotiating with the Obama regime for some time. He can't just wave a magic wand and get the feds to do his bidding from TX.
If Perry had been thinking about running in 2012 before a few months ago, he'd have been in better shape and not made the debate mistakes he's made making him the leading non-Romney. It's unfortunate we have so many unprepared candidates trying to fill that spot and it seems we're down to Newt.
And I will add that the American people will not accept a George Bush clone - a clone who makes GWB look like a winner of an Oxford Union debate against Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis. It depresses me that such an inarticulate cluck could ever attain the White House.
And I just don’t think Americans are going to go for it.
The Brokeback Perry series of photos have returned, I see. Yuck!
I'm from/in Texas and though I'm not es tactic about him, I see him as the lesser of all evils currently running that can beat obummer.
After 3 months of explanations about the TX tuition program it's impossible to believe that you don't understand it, or why it was done. The only alternative explanation to you being ignorant by choice is you think lying helps who ever it is you support. I'm guessing your a Cain supporter. We haven't seen this type of crap from Newt, Bachmann, or Santorum supporters.
It’s a step in the right direction.
Be a little careful about throwing the dumb word around, Naps.
Seeing as who your candidate is.
the Dallas Observer just blamed the rise in HIV among young men in the Dallas area on Rick Perry.
Why?
Because they say he got rid of Planned Parenthood.
Well, not completely yet, but he’s trying.
Miss marmelstein, who do you think you’re doing any good for with a nasty comment like that?
Certainly not your candidate and certainly not yourself.
>>>>>... dumb Perry.
In the last few weeks its obvious Cain is in over his head. His public statements have shown Cain is a policy dumbell of the first order.
Yes, even Mark Davis (local area conservative talk show host who subs for Rush sometimes) said Cain has proven that he’s not up to the job.
He was among the people (including me) who defended Cain against the so-called bimbo eruption, but he’s seen the light.
Thanks shield.
Go take a nap, Rickster is running now and I am pulling for him
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