Posted on 11/06/2010 6:14:22 PM PDT by USALiberty
Some Republican lawmakers — still reveling in Tuesday’s statewide election sweep — are proposing an unprecedented solution to the state’s estimated $25 billion budget shortfall: dropping out of the federal Medicaid program.
Far-right conservatives are offering that possibility in impassioned news conferences. Moderate Republicans are studying it behind closed doors. And the party’s advisers on health care policy say it is being discussed more seriously than ever, though they admit it may be as much a huge in-your-face to Washington as anything else.
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Here’s an idea if they don’t let us defund it, make it for married couples only. lol.
Society DOES have an obligation to take care of it’s citizens in need, especially the sick and the starving.
YOU’LL NOTE I SAID CITIZENS...
Texas can save BILLIONS by redirecting monies going to the Feds for Medicare and CHIPS to State-run programs, simply by excluding non-citizens!
And we haven’t even mentioned the bloated Federal wonk system administering it.
While we have lots of immigrants we are still English/Irish/Scot/Welch in our way of thinking and there are two types of Englishman. There are the ruling classes who know how we should live and the rebellious classes who wish to be free of the ruling classes.
We are a stubborn, independent, and bloody people when pushed to the breaking point.
or the second civil war. That we would win. Nobama ain’t no Abe Lincoln.
His side would be mostly Bruthas who would have a hard time getting over mainly shootin one another, waking up at noon, smoking crack til 6, then finding some Ho’s. Foc nobama.
The citizens can go to California, the non-citizens can be sent back to Mexico and Guatemala.
Exactly. If we stop rewarding them with handouts the incentive to cross the Rio Grande will be gone.
Sarasmom isn’t calling for socialism; she’s calling for sanity!
I pay cash. Everytime I have to go into a PeaceHealth facility for a test required by my doctor, I pay a fee just for the privilege of being there. I’ve asked if any tests are necessary that I be sent somewhere else.
It ticks me off to be screwed over because I pay cash.
If you couple this with a onetime state funded bus ticket, for the cut-off deadbeats, to the leftist people`s Utopian state of your choice,like the people`s democracy of Kalifornia or the worker`s utopia of New York, then this would work in more ways than one.First,it`d cut the burden on Texan tax payers AND, it`d make the arrogant liberals/socialists in their little strongholds literally put their money where their mouths are. “You REALLY believe in socialism,well then live it you pukes!”
HELL YES!
The only draw back is all the money Texas will end up sending to the rest of the United States subsiding their Medicare programs. But its still a choice freedom or reclaimed federal money.
That being said if the House is successful in pushing the Medicare program completely to the State level. Then this will work out splendidly.
Have you given any thought to what would happen to the world economy should America announce a default on its debt?There would be nothing left, nothing at all.
Please read post 29.
If we didn’t take care of them, we could take care of you.
***It is outrageous and IMMORAL to ask working Americans to pay for the health care of LAZY welfare recipients and their brats who share a mother but not the same fathers. Want health insurance? WORK for it!***
Welfare was supposedly established to take care of those UNABLE to work. The Bible tells us that we should take care of the poor. I agree. But Welfare is overloaded with several generations of people who have learned NOT to work. For a while, under Bush, we had a Back to Work program which got some Welfare people off the sofa and into the working world. Otherwise, we have to pay taxes to house, feed, and pay medical care for those who don’t want to work. I don’t object to Welfare if it were implemented properly. The same goes for Medicaid. The poor will always be with us, but Medicare and Medicaid, as it’s set up, will always increase the number of poor and the number of workers who pay outrageous taxes.
I know exactly what you’re screaming about. After thyroid cancer, I now have to have yearly blood tests done and must see my endo for thyroid meds. Between those two alone, I don’t know how I’m ever going to get ahead because the costs of both is well over $1,000 and my deductible $1,500.
My doctor wanted me to have the followup scan for cancer markers last year but I was trying to dig myself out of debt at the time. Now I’m buried again with the latest yearly appointments. On top of it all, no one can tell me how much the scanning will costs.
If the government had stayed out of this in the first place, if HMO’s and the lot hadn’t been implemented, AND market forces would have been allowed to work, (let’s also not forget tort reform) I don’t think we’d see nearly the costs we have with our doctor bills or insurance.
Damn those Texans!
How can the progressive utopia come about like we in New York have demanded when those redneck rapscallions keep throwing sand in the gears?
Refusing to pay for acute care will not make people stop going to emergency rooms. If by law emergency rooms are forbidden from turning people away because of inability to pay, and if the state won't reimburse hospitals for treatment, then won't that cause hospitals to just drop emergency rooms?
A nice first step in reversing the half of health care that was already socialized before Obama ever came along.
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