Texas Gov. Rick Perry “I will not be party to socializing health care and bankrupting my state in direct contradiction to our Constitution “
Perry: Texas won’t expand Medicaid
By Paige Winfield Cunningham
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Monday his state won’t expand Medicaid or set up an insurance exchange, joining a growing number of Republican governors who are rejecting two key parts of President Obama’s health care law.
“I will not be party to socializing health care and bankrupting my state in direct contradiction to our Constitution and our founding principles of limited government,” Mr. Perry said.
He joins more than half-dozen GOP governors who have already said they won’t increase the size of their Medicaid programs to cover Americans up to 133 percent of the poverty level, after the Supreme Court upheld most of the law last month but said states could opt out of the Medicaid expansion.
Rick Perry = Governor with a backbone
.
Chris Christie = Governor who talks a good game…