Just Because His Breath Smells Like Bananas Doesn’t Mean He’s Tarzan
Rick Perry, the man who hates Obamacare even worse than book reading, is now encouraging Texans to sign up for some of that there Obamacare.
After years of trying to undermine the Affordable Care Act, Texas lawmakers are suddenly embracing President Obama’s signature domestic policy accomplishment. On Thursday, the Texas Tribune reportedthat the state is shuttering a state-based health care program and encouraging Texans to sign-up for coverage in the federally-run health care exchange.
Okay, so the damn federal government of the United States of America, which Perry thinks is communist and fascist and socialist and some other words he’s heard on the radio, is now suddenly and very quietly good enough for Texans?
Rick, dude, are you running for President on that? Plus, what are you going to do when Sarah Palin finds out and tells Ted Cruz?
I guess those new glasses aren’t helping the IQ points, huh?
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
Smells like bananas? Does that mean he’s a monkey’s butt?
1Not Clark Kent? Great Caesar’s Ghost, he’s not even Jimmy Olsen. But won’t his do-gooding leave a pile of cash from the old program ready for his buddies to help themselves to?
2How clever – asking Texans to sign onto an overloaded and poorly functioning user interface, then start screaming “I told you so – gummint doesn’t work!”
One wonders whether he’ll keep up encouraging use of the Federal exchanges once the IT folks work out the bugs.
3Um, if he hadn’t been so hell bent on shuttering the best run women’s health clinics in the state (PP, y’all) while trumpeting that he was gonna have state funding to cover the gap (he doesn’t, the man cain’t add) AND not expand that there EEE-vil Federal gubmint medicaid program (?! Most poor and uninsured in the nation, right here in the Lone Star) maybe, just MAYBE we could have been a little better prepared for this? Lead much Mr Perry? Besides yells, I mean!
4Speaking of yelling, when Ted Cruz sees what Icky Ricky has done, he is liable to have a tantrum and secede from Texas
5I get so mad when I think of how he went and sneaked and got rid of the Texas insurance pool for folks who can’t get insurance anywhere else and they won’t be able to get ACA either. Ranting in Austin. I’m going to go work on my novel. As my friend said at lunch, “Which of your activities are having noticeable results?” I couldn’t think of any. Making noise is good. Making changes is even better. And as my friend kept asking, exactly why could Perry shut down the health insurance pool without anyone making a stink? Huh? Who do we complain to and where and how can we DO something about it?
6And he only wants to get rid of the mostly old and sick folks’ health care needs, not the young folks who mostly are healthy.
7Check his teeth. I could swear this eejit has been chomping peyote buds.
8Do the glasses have actual lenses in them? Inquiring minds want to know!
9What’s happened to his hair? There isn’t as much of it as there used to be, is there? Is Good hair becoming Gonehair?
10I’d try to find out if his glasses have lenses in them but that would require going up and talking to him. I guess we’ll just have to wonder.
11HYPOCRITE!
12Funny that the so called pro-life party,who hate abortions,have done everything in their power to abort Obama’s baby-the ACA.
13Man, oh man! Gov. Goodhair just made eye glasses look stoopid!! 😉
14Maybe while he’s been wandering around the country telling other state’s folks how rotten their tax system is and they should come to Texas, those same other state’s folks have been telling him how rotten Texas’ insurance system is and that nobody will come to Texas til it’s fixed.
p.s. to Gramiam — no loss there, may be the best way to get rid of him. Shall we start an Encouragement Circle? “Dear Ted, we back your secession plan. Please do.”
15So, what’s the Texas health insurance system gonna look like after it secedes from the Union?
16Richard, I love your question. We all need to ask questions. Last night I actually had an interesting discussion with lots of questions with very conservative folks from Pennsylvania. I helped them see what was really going on in Texas. The light dawned. Or at least a little bit. We all agreed we didn’t know what to do. And re: Perry’s mean new plan, he wants to overload the ACA with mostly really sick folks. I’m curious. What other states are doing the same thing? I think I’ll go look around.
17Correct me if I’m wrong, but as I understand it, if the governor rejects Medicaid expansion, people in certain income levels cannot get subsidies to help with premiums like they can in other states that care about poor people. At least I think I read that about Oklahoma, where our _____ (supply your own adjective) governor rejected Medicaid expansion. I think Perry is still rejecting it.
18Susie, I’ll answer your question. I’m one of those people. I went on the exchange and it told me that I should qualify for a medicaid expansion, but since TX wasn’t doing that, I wasn’t required to buy insurance. So, I can buy insurance on the exchange, but with no subsidy. If I choose not to, I don’t pay the penalty from the “individual mandate”. So, if I made more money, I would get a subsidy. If I made less money, I might qualify to get medicaid. As it is, I am out of luck. At this point, I qualify for community healthcare from Travis county, so folks are having to pay more local taxes to help me out instead of less federal taxes. Sorry. I am staying in TX right now because my son can get help when he goes to college (fingers crossed) from his dad’s military service. Once he is on his own, I will probably leave TX unless it turns blue.
19That photograph reminds me of a time when I was in junior high (right after the Civil War) when I tried on my mother’s glasses and asked her if they made me look smart. She said, “No, they make you look constipated.”
20rethuglicans are born compassionless. Like mixing oil and water.
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