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John Birch Society: Rick Perry Proposed Bi-National Health Insurance with Mexico
The New American ^ | 05 September 2011 | Kelly Holt

Posted on 09/05/2011 4:59:14 PM PDT by Tempest

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To: I see my hands
BARICK PERRIEDM

lol! Good one. True too!

61 posted on 09/05/2011 5:47:41 PM PDT by South40 (Perry: There is a path to citizenship for ILLEGAL ALIENS who have served THEIR country)
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To: Tempest

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!


62 posted on 09/05/2011 5:50:01 PM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: mylife

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.


63 posted on 09/05/2011 5:51:42 PM PDT by CajunConservative
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To: Tempest
Good point about Perry's hitching a ride on the Tea Party bandwagon without being an authentic Tea Partier, but rather an access-capitalist tool instead.

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.

64 posted on 09/05/2011 5:51:42 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“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.


65 posted on 09/05/2011 5:53:14 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: lentulusgracchus

The Tea Party started in Texas.
Then it went viral nation wide.
It’s all about fiscal responsibility.


66 posted on 09/05/2011 5:55:52 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: mylife

Tea Party started in Texas.


Really?


67 posted on 09/05/2011 5:56:56 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: AFPhys
Perry actually proposed a 100% free market solution to a serious problem 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.

68 posted on 09/05/2011 5:58:45 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Sheesh. Go away and stay away Newt.)
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To: bushwon

Really! In Ft Worth Texas


69 posted on 09/05/2011 5:59:06 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: mylife

Sorry, I don’t think they did...just sayin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tea_Party_protests,_2009


70 posted on 09/05/2011 5:59:38 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: AFPhys; Tempest
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!

100% pure personal attack. <ignore>

71 posted on 09/05/2011 6:00:34 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: comebacknewt

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.


72 posted on 09/05/2011 6:01:30 PM PDT by Tempest (I will be the one to say I told you so.)
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To: mylife
I really thought it started with Santelli, on the floor of one of the great exchanges .... although I remember reading that people were mailing teabags to congressmen a couple of years before that, and I don't know whose idea it was (I really wish I did, they deserve a big hug).
73 posted on 09/05/2011 6:03:11 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Yes idea started with Santelli. He wanted to have one in Chicago...I think in July, and idea caught on!


74 posted on 09/05/2011 6:04:26 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: bushwon
Jan 16 2009
75 posted on 09/05/2011 6:07:50 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: comebacknewt; AFPhys; Tempest
Perry actually proposed a 100% free market solution to a serious problem in Texas.

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.

76 posted on 09/05/2011 6:08:37 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: bushwon

At any rate, all that is a debatable side issue of no real importance.


77 posted on 09/05/2011 6:08:57 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: bushwon

Yes, but Texas was first with the most illegals in a VW van contest.


78 posted on 09/05/2011 6:09:39 PM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: Tempest
All I can say is that you aren't familiar with the details of the proposal. The plan being proposed was a PRIVATE insurance plan. Period.

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.

79 posted on 09/05/2011 6:10:19 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Sheesh. Go away and stay away Newt.)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Yes that was the original seed that started what would become the tea party.


80 posted on 09/05/2011 6:11:26 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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