Is any one surprised:
From todays Sunday Globe:
Texas has the highest rate of uninsured people in the country - 24.6 percent - and the number of uninsured that has grown by 35 percent during Governor Rick Perry’s 11-year tenure.
While I would not say Massachusetts system is perfect the graph comparing Texas to Massachusetts and the nation that accompanies the article makes it clear the Perry's version of Health care is anything but all inclusive.
So what is it about republicans that they actually prefer a system which results in a such inequity? Its a question that perplexes me. My republican friends seem enamored to the idea that those without insurance don't deserve it. If presented with a specific case, someone who is disabled for instance, they always say they would never cut funding for folks who are really disabled. And there it is. In the republican view folks without insurance don't deserve health care. And of even those whom they agree do, well that group is suspect and probably fraudulent.
And when you view the world with such jaundiced eyes you end up with a system like Texas. One in which illicits quotes like this one:
“This is ground zero in the health care disaster,’’
And a system which actually is guilty of the very faults republicans claim occur in nations with nationalized systems. How many times have you heard the right wing talking point about having to wait for "rationed" care? Turns out Texans can find examples close to home:
Jones ..... waited nearly a year for her initial appointment with a neurosurgeon, then waited four more months for an MRI
Read the whole article; the contrast between republican policy and democratic could not be more clear.
Republican policies produce poor results. And the republican base cheers.
A sad state of affairs.