Bwah-HAH, Goodhair's own appointed board endorses ACA coverage he has denied low income Texans
But first a snippet from Wendy DAVIS. Her opponent was technically not GOODHAIR, but is a successor to the troglodyte GOODHAIR-Shrubs, but one of those even more vicious for being smarter and more focused.
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[font size=5]From Wendy DAVIS' Concession Speech -- A Quote from Poet Jacob RIIS[/font]
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock,
perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two,
and I know it was not the last blow that did it,
but all that had gone before.
http://www.texastribune.org/2014/11/12/perry-appointed-board-endorses-coverage-expansion/
[font size=5]Perry-Appointed Board Backs Health Coverage Expansion[/font]
by Edgar Walters
A board of medical professionals appointed by Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that the state should provide health coverage to low-income Texans under the Affordable Care Act a move the Republican-led Legislature has opposed. ....
The 15-member Texas Institute of Health Care Quality and Efficiency recommended that the states health commissioner be authorized to negotiate a Texas-specific agreement with the federal government to expand health coverage to the poor, using available federal funds.
Were trying to look at actions whereby more Texans can be covered, said board chairman Steve Berkowitz, the president and founder 0f SMB Health Consulting. Were trying to take the politics out of it. ....
Lawmakers considered an alternative Texas solution to Medicaid expansion during the 2013 legislative session an initiative that would have called on the state's health agency to seek a waiver from the federal government to draw down funds to cover the uninsured. That proposal failed. Ultimately the GOP-led Legislature approved a requirement that the Health and Human Services Commission receive legislative approval before expanding Medicaid eligibility an effort to ensure that they held the keys to any possible agreement with the feds.
Members of the Institute of Health Care Quality and Efficiency which was established by lawmakers in the 2011 legislative session to identify evidence-based approaches to improving health care and cutting costs said Wednesday that Texas rate of uninsured was unacceptable, and that state leaders should look for an alternative way to expand health coverage. The board's recommendations are not binding and any such decision is up to the Legislature. ....
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