The Texas chapter of Concerned Women for America last week called Americans who support President Obama’s health care reform law “selfish and indulgent.” Another prominent Texas right-winger compared the health care law to slavery. And religious-right groups like Texans for Life Coalition have been insisting that the administration’s rule requiring most health insurance plans to cover birth control is an attack on religious freedom. Yet those pressure groups and right-wing pooh-bahs say little about the millions of Texans who don’t have access to affordable health care. And today we learned more about just how bad the health care situation is in Texas:
Texas ranks worst in the nation in health care services and delivery, according to an annual scorecard issued by the federal Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.
In nine out of 12 categories, Texas rated weak or very weak. The only area where Texas earned the average ranking of good was in maternal and child health care measures. Out of a possible 100 points, Texas earned 31.61, while Minnesota, the highest ranking state, scored 67.31.
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The Texas Medicaid law for the disabled and poor offers one of the most limited health care programs in the nation, and more than 25 percent of Texans do not have health insurance of any kind, which is the highest uninsured rate in the nation.
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Republicans, who control every statewide office and represent a majority in the Legislature, have rejected the new federal (health care) law, which calls for almost every eligible U.S. citizen to get health insurance. Some have pledged to block any effort to expand Texas Medicaid, which is a joint state and federal program, in order to get more people insured.
Last year, Texas lawmakers underfunded Medicaid by more than $4 billion and that bill will come due when they meet again next year. Top officials have estimated that the Legislature will need to find at least $10 billion in new funding for Medicaid at a time when Gov. Rick Perry has pledged not to increase state spending.
Read the full story here. Then ask yourself: why don’t we hear groups likes those named “Texans for Life” talk more about the lives of Texans struggling without the medical care they need?
“and if God loves you, you will prosper. if you don’t prosper, it’s because you are a sinner and God is punishing you, so why should those whom God Loves help you? you are suffering and it’s God’s will. ” I have never understood this attitude, given what Jesus was saying and doing in the New Testament. But there it is, and the prosperous don’t seem to feel a need to be compassionate.
because some of them believe in miracles and that science doesn’t cure or matter. How many times have I been told if I would just pray about my clinical depression it would just go away. Depression, after all, is just God’s way of saying he misses you.
read this, it explains a lot about the attitude. http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10126-how-a-brutal-strain-of-american-aristocrats-have-come-to-rule-america#.T_YGuAmbYAs.facebook
Because they are small, ignorant, hate filled people.
Race to the bottom…
I think our legislature has missed the meaning of their own “trickle down” economic theory.
The problem with the healthcare is that many people do not want to do without healthcare, pets and other luxuries insrtead of getting insurance in this market economy.
That is a concientious choice some have made.
Careful saying hate-filled. Nazis and Communists are hate-filled.
Their real god is money.