Discussion for article #231919
Guess he’s having a little trouble threading that needle, huh?
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God forbid people of Texas have such basic needs access to healthcare, a living wage or a decent education. No, by God, I will take our country back to the heavenly days before the Magna Carta ! All will be well then !!! (Just think of the options in public executions !)
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“Fear not. We will instill Fear of The Bla-man and and his policies at every opportunity.”
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Uh, Governor? Here in Texas health-care decisions are decided by your insurance company. Especially if you are stuck with employer provided care, insurance decides who your doctor is going to be, and what health care you can afford.
And if you aren’t poor enough to qualify for ACA subsidies, what insurance you can afford again determines what doctor you can choose, even what hospital you can go to. And your choices are liable to be slim, indeed.
And then there are the poor, of which we have a large number, who can’t get any healthcare at all, for whom it has been determined they should just go to the county hospitals. none of which need to shoulder the burden of your blinkered ideology.
But I guess none of that matters, huh? After all, your healthcare is taken care of, isn’t it?
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No healthcare for you, said the guy in the wheelchair. texans must be freaking stupid to have elected this POS. The irony burns.
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Whew! Thank god! We were all scared that Medicaid would be expanded to people that need health insurance. Now those people that would have qualified can continue to be thankful they don’t have insurance.
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"…putting patients and doctors in charge of health-care decisions.”
If Democrats had any brains, they’d pounce on this as the stupid lie that it is. But, that word, “brains.” There’s the rub.
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Shorter Abbott: “I respect the rights of Texans to send their tax dollars to Washington in order to receive nothing in return, and I will defend that to their deaths.”
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“Greg Abbott believes that Texas should be able to address our unique health-care situation without federal interference, putting patients and doctors in charge of health-care decisions.”
Interpret as poor working people who can’t afford health care just don’t deserve it. Continue the policies that have lead Texas to have the highest rate of people without health insurance in the nation.
“There’s no need to worry. I still hate the poor and minorities like any true Amurikkkan.”
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Yes, the majority of Texas voters, at least the few showed at the polls to cast ballots, are stupid.
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And, really, that’s the ONLY way this situation is going to change: with Texans fighting for their healthcare. It’s not really gonna come from the left or from Dems. ALL Texans are gonna have to get out there and demand it.
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Yes, heaven forbid a million uninsured Texans get coverage. That would be an atrocity!
Thanks for the reassurance, Guv.
Continuing to earn the name Texass on a daily basis.
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Abbott has been sitting on his brains for so long that numbness has set in.
Plus, he’s a typical right-wing jackass who cares nothing for the people he’s supposed to serve—he cares only for the big-money donors who bought him the governorship.
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Just as soon as they figure out some way to re-brand it as not-ACA/Obamacare, they’ll take the dollars and implement it. All those GOP doctors are getting hungry for the Gov’t. bux.
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I was thinking I’d heard “Hell no! No sick, disabled or poor people gettin’ health care under my watch!”
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“The gesture had been misinterpreted.”
For a micro-second, people in the room thought Abbott had a heart. How silly.
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Turnout was 28.5%, but the pressure to reform how Texas cares for its uninsured will come from hospitals and corporations.
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