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.
You have a problem with that? BTW, they were able to more than pay for the program through savings realised when Perry passed tort reform.
As a matter of fact, one of the potential big advantages to the private bi-national health insurance was that it would take the burden off of SCHIPS -- a program most conservatives loathe.
Again, this was a conservative, private market approach to solving the insurance problem in Texas. You should be praising Perry for it, but you are so blinded by your hatred of the man, that you just can't see it.
The news is so old, there aren't many links for me to share about it. Here is one from a WaPo blogger that outlines some of the same points I am making though:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/rick-perry-was-right-on-binational-health-insurance/2011/09/01/gIQAPgdcuJ_blog.html
P.S. -- the blog entry is not from left-wing hack Ezra Klein. It is from their health care reporter.