Posted on 09/05/2011 4:59:14 PM PDT by Tempest
The article focused on Perry’s comments at a Border Summit speech in south Texas (8-22-01), days before the 9-11 attacks, about bi-national health insurance — Texas-funded coverage for both U.S. and Mexican border residents. The governor’s statement favored a study, required by the Legislature, about "the feasibility of bi-national health insurance.”
The DMN continued, "Katherine Cesinger, spokeswoman for Perry’s campaign, downplayed the topic of bi-national health insurance. 'A bill was passed by the Legislature that authorized a study to look into this issue, which ultimately concluded there were numerous barriers to accomplishing that idea, and the Legislature took no further action on this concept,' she said." However, in spite of the Legislature’s failure to act, Perry made clear his willingness to funnel Texas’s assets to Mexico.
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Perry has consistently positioned himself as a social and fiscal conservative, but the above comments reveal a different record. Indeed, four years later, Perry noted his approval of a bigger example of socialized medicine when he embraced Hillary Clinton’s national health care plan.
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lol! Good one. True too!
When are you going to announce your presidential run? I really want to see how popular your views will become in America, or even in the GOP!
And they should if that is an option. I love how all these “True Conservatives” are ranting over this yet it’s truly the conservative position. It allows people a true consumer choice in the free market.
In fact, he ought to be in one of the numerous rides his billionaire sponsors have fronted him over the last what, 12 years?
The "Tea Party Express" aren't real-deal Tea Party people, either, but they're close enough -- they're old Gray Davis recall-petition people ("California Deserves Better"), ex-Reaganauts, and Tom McClintock boosters from out in California, and some of them are professional party people who are still real-deal conservatives, and not part of that bunch that got Ahnuld involved in running for Governator.
“What EVER.
It would be nice if there were a way to get Mexico to kick in for the medical costs incurred by their citizens that they freely encourage to seek their fortunes in El Coloso Del Norte without even asking it a formal by-your-leave.”
The United States Federal Government is 100% responsible for every penny of that cost. Not just because they let the illegals in, but because the Federal Government mandates health care providers give away their services for free(1986 COBRA act).
They talk about people stealing form the system by showing up in the emergency room and they couldn’t be more hypocritical. The Federal Government specifically the Democrats who forced thou COBRA at the last minute are the reason folk can steal healthcare service.
The Federal Government NEVER had any right to force anyone to give away free services. But in 1986 they did, and sense our emergency healthcare service providers have been forced to give away their services.
The Tea Party started in Texas.
Then it went viral nation wide.
It’s all about fiscal responsibility.
Tea Party started in Texas.
I am still waiting for Tempest to respond to my post #49 to tell me why this was a bad idea.
My guess is he is consorting with the DUmmies or the Kos Kiddies to plan his response, and I won't hear back from him until they come up with something.
Really! In Ft Worth Texas
Sorry, I don’t think they did...just sayin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tea_Party_protests,_2009
100% pure personal attack. <ignore>
Sorry but there is nothing to back up your position.
You may very well be talking about a differnet side matter if it ever even happened.
Here is the Rick Perry’s and the State of Texas’s official record of the matter.
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10688/
As you can see there is NO OFFER of private insurance. That’s false cover.
Yes idea started with Santelli. He wanted to have one in Chicago...I think in July, and idea caught on!
I have a problem with characterizing any cross-border economic activity as "100% free-market". Marketarian as it may be on this side of the border, on the Mexican side there are so many subsidies of basic living costs (corn meal and gasoline, to name two) that hold down wages, that the entire border economy, the maquiladora phenomenon (now admittedly passe'), and outsourcing to Mexico in general are all tied up with lower Mexican wage/living costs and Mexico's subsidized economy, and are therefore a huge arbitrage play, playing off differences in wage/price structures in two substantially different economies and cultures.
At any rate, all that is a debatable side issue of no real importance.
Yes, but Texas was first with the most illegals in a VW van contest.
FWIW, the main reason the plan did not go through is that Texas physicians were worried about losing their clientele to the lower priced Mexican physicians and hospitals.
Like I said, not everyone agreed with it including many in the GOP. It was not because it was a government run insurance plan though. That is patently false.
Yes that was the original seed that started what would become the tea party.
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