This guy (Perry) is embarassing Texas LOL

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/11/dont_listen_to_texas.html

Letting Perry serve as the spokesman for a federalist solution to the health-care system is a bit like letting Dick Fuld testify on the adequacy of self-regulation on Wall Street, or Donald Rumsfeld explain that occupations are easy. Gingrich should have picked a different co-author. Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, and Jon Huntsman, as governor of Utah, have both made real strides on health-care reform. Romney, however, disowned his bill after he realized the Republican base didn't like health-care reform, and Huntsman probably isn't trusted now that he's technically an Obama appointee.

[Aragorn]

1. Welcome to Texas

As U R obviously a newcomer - get used to it.

[sonias]

3. He's not a newcomer

He's been our state/forum for awhile. Did you miss the LOL?

True, Perry has been embarrassing us for awhile, but Perry is taking it nationally. So we look bad all over the country. That is more embarrassing. It's one thing to do to get used to it in Texas. We're stuck with the idiot until the next election.

But honestly every time the idiot gets national press, the whole of Texas gets tarred again. We look like the stupidest state in the country. We've already been blamed for all of G.W.' sins. Do we need his younger, stupider brother in the national press too?

Klein gets it:

Letting Perry serve as the spokesman for a federalist solution to the health-care system is a bit like letting Dick Fuld testify on the adequacy of self-regulation on Wall Street, or Donald Rumsfeld explain that occupations are easy. Gingrich should have picked a different co-author. Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, and Jon Huntsman, as governor of Utah, have both made real strides on health-care reform. Romney, however, disowned his bill after he realized the Republican base didn't like health-care reform, and Huntsman probably isn't trusted now that he's technically an Obama appointee.

Pushing Texas as a model of working health care reform is serious delusion on Perry's part considering we have the highest percentage of uninsured people in the country. His only crowing point is tort reform which helped the insurance companies - not the patients.

Washington Post 11/06/09
Let states lead the way

(snip)
Texas, for example, has adopted approaches to controlling health-care costs while improving choice, advancing quality of care and expanding coverage. Consider the successful 2003 tort reform. Fewer frivolous lawsuits have attracted record numbers of doctors to the state as medical malpractice insurance premiums dropped by half. Christus Health, a large Catholic nonprofit system with a significant presence in Texas, spent about $100 million on liability defense payments in 2003. Last year, Christus spent $2.3 million on such payments. Much of that savings has gone into expanding health-care services in low-income neighborhoods.

Oh and let charity hospitals take care of the poor. It's their answer for eveything. :grr:

Sonia

[Aragorn]

2. smilie

:)