Congressman Blake Farenthold: I'd Duel Female Senators If They Were Men

Texas Cuts $350 Million From Medicaid, Disabled Children Hit Hardest

PERRspectives: The GOP Has Made the Red State Health Care Deficit Worse

PERRspectives: The GOP Has Made the Red State Health Care Deficit Worse

"To put those findings in terms Republicans can understand, up to 3,000 of Rick Perry's Texans will needlessly die each year. Those dead will joined by up to 671 from Scott Walker's Wisconsin, 1,176 in Nathan Deal's Georgia, 2,221 in Rick Scott's Florida and 1,145 in Pat McCrory's North Carolina."

The Human Toll of Texas's Decision To Not Expand Medicaid

Ted Cruz Begins Sad Backtrack on the Importance of ACA Website as Site’s Issues Fade

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"You had to know that this was coming.  After weeks and weeks of right-wing propaganda pointing to the failures of the Affordable Care Act website as the proof that “Obamacare” is a failure, now that it’s pretty much fixed and working, we’re going to start seeing Republicans minimize the importance of the functionality of the website.  Which is exactly what Ted Cruz’s sentiments were with his tweet where he said that a “Faulty website is but 1 symptom of Obamacare. In other words, “Damn, now that the website is working I won’t be able to use it to attack “Obamacare” so I need to downplay the importance of it.”
It’s just sad."

I Watched My Patients Die of Treatable Diseases Because They Were Poor | Alternet

I Watched My Patients Die of Treatable Diseases Because They Were Poor | Alternet
"A Galveston medical student describes life and death in the non-existent Texas safety net."

Ted Cruz vs. Twitter: Does Obamacare Hurt Americans?

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"Americans across the country telling tales of how Obamacare has lowered premiums for them or provided better insurance at similar rates."

Rick Perry Is Actually Encouraging Texans To Enroll In Obamacare

Rick Perry Is Actually Encouraging Texans To Enroll In Obamacare: Texas is shuttering a state-based health care program and pushing Texans to sign-up for coverage in Obamacare's health care exchange.

Health Care Hypocrisy | Common Dreams

Health Care Hypocrisy | Common Dreams
"While going to extremes to keep millions of Americans from getting vitally needed health coverage, Cruz repeatedly refused to answer whether taxpayers covered his health care. Finally, he piously responded that he was eligible for taxpayer coverage, but had nobly declined.
Such slapstick! It turns out that Ted was fibbing, for he’s covered by his wife’s policy. As a millionaire top executive at Goldman Sachs, she and her family are given gold-plated Cadillac coverage by the Wall Street giant. Goldman pays some $40,000 a year for her and Ted’s policy — a benefit-cost that the firm passes on to us taxpayers by deducting it from its corporate tax bill. Hilarious, huh?"

Ted Cruz Lie Exposed By Student He Used To Vilify Obamacare (VIDEO)

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"It is no surprise that Ted Cruz got caught in yet another lie. What is surprising is how sloppy and irresponsible it was."

Why Ted Cruz’s Anti-Obamacare Grandstanding Doesn’t Matter At All

Why Ted Cruz’s Anti-Obamacare Grandstanding Doesn’t Matter At All: It's not going to do anything to undermine Obamacare -- and it's distracting you from the GOP-led policies that actually are.

Ted Cruz Continues To Spread Falsities About Obamacare

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Rick Perry Quietly Lobbies The White House For $100 Million In Obamacare Funding

Rick Perry Quietly Lobbies The White House For $100 Million In Obamacare Funding: Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) despises all things Obamacare, including its optional Medicaid expansion. But he'll still take $100 million of the law's funding.

GOP Governors Cost Their States Billions To Deny Poor People Health Care

GOP Governors Cost Their States Billions To Deny Poor People Health Care
"Now Rick Perry and the other states rejecting that Medicaid expansion on pure ideological grounds without thinking about the consequences are about to find themselves explaining to constituents, and possibly each other, how their budgets just found themselves in serious deficit status."

Texas Will Deny Health Coverage To 1.5 Million Low-Income Residents

Texas Will Deny Health Coverage To 1.5 Million Low-Income Residents: 1.5 million low-income Texans may go without health care coverage after lawmakers in the state voted against expanding Medicaid using $100 billion in federal funds offered under President Obama’s health care law. The decision comes almost a year after the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government cannot require states to enroll more Medicaid beneficiaries. [...]/p

Uninsured Texans Seek Health Care In Mexico As Their Governor Resists Medicaid Expansion

Uninsured Texans Seek Health Care In Mexico As Their Governor Resists Medicaid Expansion: The debate over Medicaid expansion has devolved into a GOP platform for grandstanding about the health reform law and the Obama administration. But an NPR article from Tuesday shines a light on what, exactly, most Republican governors’ refusal to expand Medicaid will mean for real Americans by examining poor communities in a state headed by [...]/p

PERRspectives: GOP Fights to Keep Texas Health Care Among Nation's Worst

PERRspectives: GOP Fights to Keep Texas Health Care Among Nation's Worst
"As it turns out, Texas is a role model only in the sense of being a horrible example to be avoided at all costs. As the numbers show, by almost every objective measure the Texas health care system ranks among the very worst in the nation."

Texas Republicans Stand United Against Providing Low-Income People With Health Care

Texas Republicans Stand United Against Providing Low-Income People With Health Care: Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) and the state’s two Republican senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, joined forces at the state capitol on Monday afternoon to reiterate their opposition to expanding the Medicaid program under Obamacare. Despite the fact that Texas could add about 1.5 million low-income people to its Medicaid rolls if lawmakers opted [...]/p

In A Bucket of Hurt: The Pain Doctors And Gov. Rick Perry

In A Bucket of Hurt: The Pain Doctors And Gov. Rick Perry
"Here’s how the story goes:

There’s two brothers named Kemel and Mark Cereceda who run a pain clinic in Hialeah, Florida.  They wanted to influence legislation to keep their chiropractic pain relief clinic in the business of  making a boatload of money."

Faith Communities, Hospital Groups, And Business Leaders All Urge Texas Governor To Expand Medicaid

Faith Communities, Hospital Groups, And Business Leaders All Urge Texas Governor To Expand Medicaid: Despite the fact that more than 25 percent of Texas’ population is uninsured, Gov. Rick Perry (R) has rejected Obamacare’s optional expansion of the Medicaid program, a move that will deny health coverage to more than 133,000 low-income Texans. In order to pressure him to change his mind, a diverse coalition of community leaders in [...]/p