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Placido Salazar

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Four BAD Reasons to

GET OUT THE VOTE

FOUR BAD REASONS – why we must get the vote out….

Cornyn, Cruz, Perry and Patrick .  We must start with our own

family – and in our neighborhood, to GET THE VOTE OUT. The

education and healthcare of our future generations – depend oneach one of us meeting our responsibilities today. These four

characters are the worst thing that could happen to our working

class. We need to VOTE THEM OUT – and we can do it, by getting

our family members and our friends, to REGISTER and then

VOTE. Of course it’s important for each one of us to set the

example, by voting; but each one of us, can influence at least TEN

VOTES . We cannot afford to “let somebody else worry about it”. 

The price at stake, is too great….. OUR CHILDREN.

As we get closer to election time, we might even have to target someincumbents of our own party, who forgot where they came from –  

and who sent them there. A word to the wise, should suffice….. no

position is permanent. Placido Salazar 

FirstReading

Tripling down against Medicaid expansion; Cruz and

Cornyn join Perry at Capitol news conference

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By Jonathan Tilove | Monday, April 1, 2013, 07:38 AM

In dueling presser, the Castro twins will double down in favor of expanding Medicaid

Good morning Austin.

In his State of the State Address, Gov. Rick Perry said, “We have made it clear Texas will not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, as Chairwoman

(Lois) Kolkhorst can tell you. We won t’ set up a state exchange, as Chairwoman(Jane) Nelson can attest. Texas will not drive millions more into an unsustainable

system, and that stance has not changed an iota.”

Two months later, Perry has not budged an iota. At 10:30 this morning, Sens. Ted

Cruz and John Cornyn will join Perry at the Capitol to make it, if possible, even

 plainer that, when it comes to expanding Medicaid, Texas is, as Dana Carvey’s

George H.W. Bush would put it, “not gonna do it; wouldn’t be prudent.”

They will be joined by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who has said that Medicaid

expansion is off the table this session; Kolkhorst, who chairs the House PublicHealth Committee; U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, a Lewisville physician who in

March co-authored an op-ed with the governor opposing Medicaid expansion;former state Sen. Kyle Janek, the Texas health and human services executive

commissioner, and Texas Public Policy Foundation President and CEO BrookeRollins.

TPPF recently released a  blueprint f or Medicaid reform, which its authors said wasexplicitly not an attempt to suggest the terms of a deal with Washington onexpansion, which TPPF absolutely opposes.

When Perry named Janek commissioner back in August, Progress Texas, which

supports Medicaid expansion, wrote, under the headline, “ Perry’s LatestAppointment Jeopardizes Medicaid in Texas ,” that,“Janek, who lobbied to get rid

of federal programs such as CHIP and Medicaid, is now at the head of thecommission that is responsible for the administration of federal programs.”

Under ACA, states would have been required to increase coverage to almost all

Americans younger than 65 with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal povertylevel. It underpinned Obamacare’s ambitions to vastly expand medical coverage.

But the Supreme Court, in a decision affirming the constitutionality of the law,declared that states could not be forced to go along with expanding Medicaid.

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Who presumably won’t be at this morning’s press conference - House Speaker Joe

Straus. Last month, Straus told Peggy Fikac of the San Antonio Express News thatthe time had come to “get our heads out of the sand” and find an alternative toMedicaid expansion that wouldn’t cost the state billions in federal dollars.

“It’s time that we put forth a good-faith effort to find a Texas solution,” hesaid.“We need to move beyond the word ‘no’ to something that the administration

might entertain … There are no winners if nothing is agreed to. We have a very

large state, a significant population of uninsured people … and I think it could bean opportune time to put some proposals on the table that could be supported byTexas leadership.”

Fikac has a story today in which state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio,

who chairs the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, and others say that

Medicaid expansion could be debated on the floor of the House later this week as part of the budget debate.

Fikac: “The Texas Senate earlier addressed Medicaid expansion in the version of the budget it approved and sent to the House. Its provision, which wasn’t publicly

debated, says that before Medicaid eligibility is modified in Texas, the Health and

Human Services Commission must develop a plan to create more efficient health-care coverage options and get written approval from the Legislative Budget Board

 before implementing it. That provision, which would give legislative leaders a say

if Medicaid changes are pressed by Perry after the Legislature adjourns, cites

 particular principles that would have to be used, such as promotion of existing private insurance coverage.”

Perry, Cruz, Cornyn, et al, will not go unanswered.