Its all bumper sticker talk at this point isnt it
Posted on 11/05/2013 9:28:20 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
President Obama will press Republican governors to allow the ObamaCare expansion of Medicaid into their states during a trip to Dallas on Wednesday, according to White House and local officials.
The president will call on Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) to "put politics aside" and "not deny people healthcare because of ideology," White House deputy senior advisor David Simas told reporters on Tuesday.
When the Affordable Care Act originally passed, states were required to expand Medicaid coverage for all individuals making below the federal poverty level or within 138 percent of it.
But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that the federal government couldn't force states to expand the joint program, enabling some Republican governors — including Perry — to reject the growth of Medicaid in their states.
Because of the way the ObamaCare law is written, consumers below that income level aren't eligible for the federal tax credits designed to help offset the require purchase of insurance on the insurance marketplaces. That means that in states that have opted not to expand Medicare, a certain slice of the population is neither poor enough to qualify for government health insurance, nor rich enough to buy their own coverage on the ObamaCare exchanges.
The White House estimates that in Texas, 1.2 million individuals are caught in that divide.
"If it makes sense anywhere to expand Medicaid, it makes sense in Texas," said San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro (D), who said poor and uninsured residents put a strain on state and municipal budgets.
"In this city, every day, we see the impact," said Castro, an ally of Obama's who gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention last year.
Perry has said that expanding the Medicare system would be "like putting another thousand people on the Titanic.”
“The president himself said Medicaid was a broken system, and I totally agree with him,” Perry said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. ”So why would we want to put another X numbers of hundreds of thousands of people on Medicaid programs that are broken?"
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said earlier this year that the state is leaving some $79 billion on the table by refusing to expand the program. She also said that the federal commitment fully covered the expansion.
During his visit, Obama is also expected to thank neighborhood canvassers and navigators assisting in enrolling uninsured consumers in ObamaCare. He'll stop at Temple Emanu-El to meet with volunteers from Dallas Area Interfaith, a community group working on enrollment and outreach.
Dallas Country Judge Clay Jenkins said he expected the president's trip to give a "shot in the arm" to individuals on the front lines of the healthcare enrollment process. He said the trip would also energize individuals who had been unsuccessfully lobbying Perry to expand the Medicaid program.
The visit to Texas is the latest attempt by the White House to rally supporters behind the president's healthcare law, despite a spate of discouraging headlines highlighting the technical glitches and mismanagement that have plagued its rollout.
"When the unexpected happens, when the unanticipated happens, we’re just going to work on it; we're going to fix things that aren't working the way they should be; we're going to smooth this thing out and we're just going to keep on going," Obama told supporters at an Organizing for Action healthcare summit on Monday night.
"We are going to keep on going because it is too important to too many people, not just in this generation but in future generations," he continued. "And we’ve got to make sure that we stay on track to make this work."
Separately, White House officials and Cabinet members are being dispatched to the 10 cities with the highest rates of uninsured residents that participate in the federal marketplace. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan will travel to Tampa on Friday and Labor Secretary Tom Perez will visit Orlando next week, a White House official said.
During his Dallas trip, Obama will also attend a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser that was postponed in early October due to the government shutdown.
Obama going to (his) enemy territory, Texas for the fight?
The only good Commie is a dead Commie.
Words of wisdom from my youth.
Just thought I would share.
Of course it has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
Mayhap on Nov. 22? History sometimes repeats ...
No, no O’Ceaser, do not go to Rome!/S
That ain’t happening. As far as I’m concerned, every GOP governor who did this is a traitor.
The president will call on Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) to “put politics aside” and “not deny people healthcare because of ideology” …In Bizarro USA, not forcing socialized medicine down the people’s throats is really “deny(ing) people healthcare because of ideology”. Obama must think everyone speaks his Newspeak, and I wonder when he himself will ever “put politics aside”.
..... Ummmmm .... just who's ideology is now leading to tens .... and possibly hundreds of millions of people to lose their healthcare? Heck ... Is it just me ... or is the Prez with a Fez a little unsure on the concept of what is currently happening to the healthcare system? Geeeeez ... it seemed to be working just fine until he stuck his dirty little hands into the works and screwing everything up.
.... Please tell me the GOP is not going to fall for this ploy again .... sheeeeesh.
The Community Oganizer is rallying his acorn troops to prepare for a battle in the streets of Liberal Lefty Texas ( Austin).
Piss off, weasel.
Ship those 1.2 Million to Virginia.
The Punk can figure out what to do with them.
AKA The People’s Revolutionary Soviet of Austin.
Why the heck would anybody do anything for/at the behest of/on the advice of/in cooperation with, etc. this man? Right now, if he asked for a cup of coffee I’d say “get it yourself, you feckless, mendacious, incompetent boob”.
I don’t live in Texas. Are people dying in the Streets because Medicaid isn’t being expanded there?
If so, how many dead bodies do you have to step over every day to get to work?
The GOP-e waits for this cue, so that they can deliberately slide farther left and claim that they fought for conservative principles on the way down . . .
vaudine
Audit reveals half of people enrolled in Illinois Medicaid program not eligible - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3087989/posts
I was thinking the same thing.
“not deny people healthcare because of ideology,” ...
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This POS administration and all Dems are constantly using that terminology to sell the ACA. It’s a lie intended to evoke emotions.
No one is denied health care, whether they have insurance or not. The two County hospitals in Dallas and Fort Worth, alone, probably average about 25,000 cases of maternity care and births for illegal aliens each year; and the ERs are constantly clogged with people with no insurance.
While I’m here, I should remind all to crush the Texas Castro twins, as they are both racists/socialists.
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