Texas Gov. Rick Perry has made it clear that his state won’t be signing up with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
In an letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, he says:
In the ObamaCare plan, the federal government sought to force the states to expand their Medicaid programs by — in the words of the Supreme Court — putting a gun to their heads. Now that the “gun to the head” has been removed, please relay this message to the President: I oppose bot the expansion of Medicaid as provided in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the creation of a so-called “state” insurance exchange, because both represent brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state.
I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the PPACA power grab. Thank God and our nation’s founders that we have the right to do so.
Neither a “state” exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under the Orwellian-named PPACA would result in better “patient protection” or in more “affordable care” What they would do is make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care.
The complete letter can be found here.
Are you listening Gov. Corbett?