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.
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.
You lifted this story from DU, and it’s a John Birch Society hit piece.
What a ridiculous thread. I wish there was an ignore feature on this site, because you have proven yourself to be a fool and a DU troll.