It has been well documented by the news media that Florida's Chief Executive Fraudster Rick (with a P) Scott thinks that Texas goobernator Rick (with a P) Perry is the cat's pajamas, or maybe the cat's meow. Both terms preceded me, so I can never be sure. To me, though, Perry is more like the cat's litterbox - full of shit and smelly if not dumped. Scott apparently looks up to Perry and wants Florida to emulate the third world country that Texas has become.
Case in point: Texas Healthcare - or, lack of it. In the eleven years that Perry has been running Texas into the ground more and more of the working people Perry is supposed to be representing have been priced out of private health care. The state's safety net has shriveled up leaving millions without medical care even in areas where jobs are plentiful. Federally subsidized clinics across the state are crammed with working people who have no insurance.
More than 25% of Texans have no health insurance! This gives Perry's Texas the distinction of achieving another first. How proud Texans must be - they are nationally in first place in at least two categories now: the most citizens without health insurance and executing more people than any other state.
A few other Texas health care milestones:
*Seniors are suffering - one of the highest hospital readmission rates in the country
*Insurance in Texas is more unaffordable than in any other state except for Mississippi
*Infant mortality rates in Texas have risen while declining nationwide
*In one major medical facility 30% coming to ER have no insurance - almost twice the national rate
* Aid to community health centers was cut
*Funding to train physicians was cut
If this is the kind of health care plan Scott has in mind for Florida, he needs to be tarred and feathered and ridden out of state on a rail - and, I don't mean figuratively, I mean literally. To do to Florida what Perry has done to Texas is criminal.
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