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.
Yet somehow I'm mistaken?!
From Texas's on website:
There are other challenges that require a unified approach, especially in the area of health care. A lack of preventative medicine means conditions that could have been eliminated through childhood immunizations show up in disturbing numbers later in life. Limited availability of medical specialists means conditions like heart disease and diabetes go untreated at alarming rates. In Texas, we recently placed a strong emphasis on preventative care when we expanded access to Medicaid for more low-income children by making the Medicaid enrollment process simpler. We allocated an additional $4 billion to the Medicaid program, and more than $900 million to the Children’s Health Insurance Program. I urged legislators to pass a telemedicine pilot program that will enable, through technology, a sick border resident of limited financial means to receive care from a specialist hundreds of miles away. But the effort to combat disease and illness requires greater cooperative efforts between our two nations.