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Study says Texas premiums will rise with Medicaid expansion opposition

Blaming Perry for the effects of PPACA? Here is how it works - by not making Medicaid eleigibility rise from 100% of the federal poverty level (FPL) to 133% of the FPL means that those 3 million poor folks do no have to pay for PPACA exchange policies, which would get massive federal subsidies. Since they are not poor enough to get Medicare Texas pays for non of that either. The state of Texas (or the federal gov't) then pays nothing for their medical care unless they get sick and use ER care. The projected "savings" to other Texas exchange folks would not occur anyway since these folks (if healthy) would not buy PPACA insurance anyway since they owe ZERO FIT, thus would pay no PPACA penalty for not buying it - they will, however, be able by insurance once they (or a family member) get sick (at subsidized rates) since PPACA took away the preexisting illness restriction.
 
Fine you want to pay more for ideological numbskullery so be it I reslly don't So much for pro small business in this state
 
Fine you want to pay more for ideological numbskullery so be it I reslly don't So much for pro small business in this state

Rick Perry and the people that support him are 90% of the problem. This state is almost last in everything. We are the laughing stock of the country thanks to his run for President. The toll road fiasco should have been enough for him to be booted out of office.
 
Rick Perry and the people that support him are 90% of the problem. This state is almost last in everything. We are the laughing stock of the country thanks to his run for President. The toll road fiasco should have been enough for him to be booted out of office.

This as well:

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Special prosecutor to investigate Rick Perry’s threat to veto public integrity unit funds

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By CHRISTY HOPPE Austin Bureau choppe@dallasnews.com
Published: 15 August 2013 10:46 PM
Updated: 15 August 2013 10:46 PM
AUSTIN — A San Antonio senior judge confirmed Thursday that he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate possible charges of abuse of office and coercion against Gov. Rick Perry.
Judge Robert “Bert” Richardson said he expected to select someone early next week, at which time “an order will be prepared and filed with the court.”
The investigation stems from the governor’s veto of $3.7 million in annual funding for Travis County’s Public Integrity Unit, which oversees public corruption and malfeasance complaints.
Perry acknowledged that he told Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, he would cut off the funding if she did not resign following her DWI conviction.
Perry, a Republican, would name Lehmberg’s replacement to serve until the next election, next year.
Lehmberg did not resign, and Perry followed through with the veto. Among other cases, the unit has been investigating the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas — one of Perry’s landmark accomplishments.
CPRIT is facing allegations that research grants funded with public money were mishandled.

Special prosecutor to investigate Rick Perry
 
Rosemary Lehmberg should have resigned but not under that pressure. Hell it maybe just a dog and poney show. Pretty much is here in Texas. Look at what else the knot heads down here gave us ted Cruz. Perry makes Bush look half way smart. However, maybe they will dig further and kick this corrupt retard out of office.
 
Rick Perry and the people that support him are 90% of the problem. This state is almost last in everything. We are the laughing stock of the country thanks to his run for President. The toll road fiasco should have been enough for him to be booted out of office.

I know. That Robin Hood tax plan for financing education really isn't working, is it?
 
Rick Perry and the people that support him are 90% of the problem. This state is almost last in everything. We are the laughing stock of the country thanks to his run for President. The toll road fiasco should have been enough for him to be booted out of office.

Actually, the biggest problem is Liberals.

Except for socialist agenda items, we actually rank very high or above average. You know little things, like
Job Growth
Business environment
Education
Teacher quality

Except for those areas where Obama and his henchmen are screwing up things, I find Texas is doing very well. So if you hate Texas so much, then take your socialist ass to California or China and enjoy the fruits of what you preach.
 
Actually, the biggest problem is Liberals.

Except for socialist agenda items, we actually rank very high or above average. You know little things, like
Job Growth
Business environment
Education
Teacher quality

Except for those areas where Obama and his henchmen are screwing up things, I find Texas is doing very well. So if you hate Texas so much, then take your socialist ass to California or China and enjoy the fruits of what you preach.

Umm no most minimum wage jobs created, almost dead last in education, Obama had nothing to do with it. Perry was screwing things u long before he came into office so please spare us with blame Obama. Socialism you say? What about Perry taking private land from Texans, and then not hiring a Texas or even American company to build the toll roads. Teachers have been treated like **** by Perry and his douche bag friends. Seems to me that you have no idea what you are talking about except for the fact you like to throw socialist around. Yeah like we haven't heard that one before. Oh and giving tax breaks to big companies while land and school taxes are sky high. Oh do you want to know how Perry balanced the 20 billion dollar short fall, by taking that "Socialists" money. Please
 
Umm no most minimum wage jobs created, almost dead last in education, Obama had nothing to do with it. Perry was screwing things u long before he came into office so please spare us with blame Obama. Socialism you say? What about Perry taking private land from Texans, and then not hiring a Texas or even American company to build the toll roads. Teachers have been treated like **** by Perry and his douche bag friends. Seems to me that you have no idea what you are talking about except for the fact you like to throw socialist around. Yeah like we haven't heard that one before. Oh and giving tax breaks to big companies while land and school taxes are sky high. Oh do you want to know how Perry balanced the 20 billion dollar short fall, by taking that "Socialists" money. Please

Education Week: States Show Spotty Progress on Education Gauges
Notice Texas is 14th, not dead last. In fact it has moved up significantly in recent years. A few years ago Texas was 25th.

Further, while education was cut, Texas also has and has had one the highest Administrator to teacher rations in the Nation, with Texas actually have more Administrators than California. The state, nor the governor, controls independent school district hiring policies, as a result, many districts reduced teachers to balance budgets instead of administrators.

Individual school districts also set school taxes, not the state. Same as your county sets Land taxes. These are usually voted upon during elections.

Education is currently the largest single expenditure from the general fund.

What 20 Billion are you talking about? At least give a year as reverence. I am interested since you were so clearly and ridiculously wrong on other things, I want to see just how biased you are on this also.

Those tax breaks are part of the reason Texas has such job growth. If you haven't noticed, few if any states are creating anything but service jobs near minimum wage because. Further, I want you to present evidence that it is only minimum wage jobs being created, or is it more of your liberal biased view point, which typical of liberalism has very little to do with reality?
 
Fine you want to pay more for ideological numbskullery so be it I reslly don't So much for pro small business in this state

I've got no love for Rick Perry, but when your insurance premiums blow up in the next couple of years, it won't be Rick Perry's fault...
 
Fine you want to pay more for ideological numbskullery so be it I reslly don't So much for pro small business in this state

And for the record, I'll be ecstatic if 9.3% is all increase I see. I'm expecting more like 100%.
 
Why are you expecting a 100% increase?

I have cheap insurance at the moment. I expect anything resembling the plan I have now will no longer be available, so I'll have to pay for a laundry list of "benefits" that I don't need or want. As will pretty much everyone else who is using real insurance.
 
I have cheap insurance at the moment. I expect anything resembling the plan I have now will no longer be available, so I'll have to pay for a laundry list of "benefits" that I don't need or want. As will pretty much everyone else who is using real insurance.

What do you consider cheap?

I don't pay any premiums now, but it only cost me 23 years of my life and becoming disabled to get the coverage I now have. Of course, Obama keeps trying to cut my plan also, ****ing retarded commie bastard.
 
I have cheap insurance at the moment. I expect anything resembling the plan I have now will no longer be available, so I'll have to pay for a laundry list of "benefits" that I don't need or want. As will pretty much everyone else who is using real insurance.

What is real insurance?
 
What do you consider cheap?

I don't pay any premiums now, but it only cost me 23 years of my life and becoming disabled to get the coverage I now have. Of course, Obama keeps trying to cut my plan also, ****ing retarded commie bastard.

Less than $500/month for a family of 5. I don't think it should be that high, but I'm under no illusions of it going down any time in the near future.
 
What is real insurance?
I'm referring to insurance vs the health care pre-payment plans that pass for insurance. Sort of like the difference between auto insurance and a pre-paid maintenance plan.
 
I'm referring to insurance vs the health care pre-payment plans that pass for insurance. Sort of like the difference between auto insurance and a pre-paid maintenance plan.

I think that is what we are getting away from. No more bull**** no more of these shell games. If an insurance company sells health they are are going to have to pay when push comes to shove.
 
I think that is what we are getting away from. No more bull**** no more of these shell games. If an insurance company sells health they are are going to have to pay when push comes to shove.
Which is why premiums are going to blow up. We're doing everything we can to insulate consumers from the costs of health care, which will drive prices up, not down. We're also mandating higher costs to insurance companies while we're driving up the costs of health care. None of it makes sense unless your goal is to destroy the system and start over.
 
Which is why premiums are going to blow up. We're doing everything we can to insulate consumers from the costs of health care, which will drive prices up, not down. We're also mandating higher costs to insurance companies while we're driving up the costs of health care. None of it makes sense unless your goal is to destroy the system and start over.

It is going to come from your hide one way or another. At the current we spend 17% of GDP on health care with results that are questionable for that
 
It is going to come from your hide one way or another. At the current we spend 17% of GDP on health care with results that are questionable for that

Why do we have to pay for health care that we don't use? Is it any wonder why we spend 17% of GDP on it?
 
Education Week: States Show Spotty Progress on Education Gauges
Notice Texas is 14th, not dead last. In fact it has moved up significantly in recent years. A few years ago Texas was 25th.

Further, while education was cut, Texas also has and has had one the highest Administrator to teacher rations in the Nation, with Texas actually have more Administrators than California. The state, nor the governor, controls independent school district hiring policies, as a result, many districts reduced teachers to balance budgets instead of administrators.

Individual school districts also set school taxes, not the state. Same as your county sets Land taxes. These are usually voted upon during elections.

Education is currently the largest single expenditure from the general fund.

What 20 Billion are you talking about? At least give a year as reverence. I am interested since you were so clearly and ridiculously wrong on other things, I want to see just how biased you are on this also.

Those tax breaks are part of the reason Texas has such job growth. If you haven't noticed, few if any states are creating anything but service jobs near minimum wage because. Further, I want you to present evidence that it is only minimum wage jobs being created, or is it more of your liberal biased view point, which typical of liberalism has very little to do with reality?




Hopefully this helps

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/u...contentious-as-a-previous-shortfall.html?_r=0


Texas drops close to bottom among states in student spending | Dallasnews.com - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News


Perry's Texas Has Highest Percentage Of Minimum Wage Jobs In The Nation | ThinkProgress



I do not know where you are getting your facts but maybe you need new ones!
 

Ok, what am I supposed to see from this article that is negative about Texas or Perry?


Teacher Salaries By State | Average Salaries For Teachers | Beginning Salaries For Teachers | Teacher Raises | TeacherPortal.com

Notice the last column. Salary comfort index. Notice Texas is no. 14. When you take in cost of living factors instead of raw salary, our Teachers are doing pretty good on average.

Try using Cost of Living comparison calculator or similar. Note that for the $48,638 average for Texas teachers would have to be $63,301 to meet similar costs if they were in California. Cali teachers do get a bit more, true, but after cost of living is taken in, not much at all.

Also, if we are spending so little per classroom but ranking 14 in overall education, seems to me other states should be looking at what we are doing because we appear to be getting quite a bit more efficiency for our money. Also, as I mentioned before, if you get rid of a lot of the Administrative positions/overhead, that would allow more to get to the teachers and classrooms, but then again, the districts control that, not the state.




WSJ lauds Texas economy, marked by jobs (including a lot of low-paying ones) | The American Independent

This an article linked to in yours. While yours nit-picks what it can to make things look bad. Look at the averages for the states with similar demographics, Cali and NY.
Average Salary in
Texas $41,000
Cali $48,000
New York $47,000

Now adjust for cost of living, again Cost of Living comparison calculator
Comparing LA, NYC to Dallas
That $48,000 in Cali is equivalent to making only $36,881 in Texas
That $47,000 in NY is equivalent to making only $26456 in Texas.

Also, keep in mind, Texas allows some jobs, those who take tips, to be paid less than minimum wage. I do not know if NY, or Cali does.

I do not know where you are getting your facts but maybe you need new ones!

For education rankings, I gave you the link. For how the State does business, if you are not even aware or know how the different function in the state work, how the hell can you be bitching about Perry, when you don't even know what he can and cannot do or what he can or cannot affect. Further, law is passed by the state Congress not Perry alone.

On average, it appears that Texas has done pretty damned good in most areas, can some be improved, sure.

P.S. If you hate Texas and Perry so much, get on I-30 and head west. It turns into I-20 west of Fort Worth and merges with I-10 just east of Van Horn. Once on I-10, keep heading west until Cali, try living there for awhile and see how it is. In other words, it's a free country, no one says you have to live in Texas, so if you hate it so much, then get the **** out.
 
Ok, what am I supposed to see from this article that is negative about Texas or Perry?



Teacher Salaries By State | Average Salaries For Teachers | Beginning Salaries For Teachers | Teacher Raises | TeacherPortal.com

Notice the last column. Salary comfort index. Notice Texas is no. 14. When you take in cost of living factors instead of raw salary, our Teachers are doing pretty good on average.

Try using Cost of Living comparison calculator or similar. Note that for the $48,638 average for Texas teachers would have to be $63,301 to meet similar costs if they were in California. Cali teachers do get a bit more, true, but after cost of living is taken in, not much at all.

Also, if we are spending so little per classroom but ranking 14 in overall education, seems to me other states should be looking at what we are doing because we appear to be getting quite a bit more efficiency for our money. Also, as I mentioned before, if you get rid of a lot of the Administrative positions/overhead, that would allow more to get to the teachers and classrooms, but then again, the districts control that, not the state.





WSJ lauds Texas economy, marked by jobs (including a lot of low-paying ones) | The American Independent

This an article linked to in yours. While yours nit-picks what it can to make things look bad. Look at the averages for the states with similar demographics, Cali and NY.
Average Salary in
Texas $41,000
Cali $48,000
New York $47,000

Now adjust for cost of living, again Cost of Living comparison calculator
Comparing LA, NYC to Dallas
That $48,000 in Cali is equivalent to making only $36,881 in Texas
That $47,000 in NY is equivalent to making only $26456 in Texas.

Also, keep in mind, Texas allows some jobs, those who take tips, to be paid less than minimum wage. I do not know if NY, or Cali does.



For education rankings, I gave you the link. For how the State does business, if you are not even aware or know how the different function in the state work, how the hell can you be bitching about Perry, when you don't even know what he can and cannot do or what he can or cannot affect. Further, law is passed by the state Congress not Perry alone.

On average, it appears that Texas has done pretty damned good in most areas, can some be improved, sure.

P.S. If you hate Texas and Perry so much, get on I-30 and head west. It turns into I-20 west of Fort Worth and merges with I-10 just east of Van Horn. Once on I-10, keep heading west until Cali, try living there for awhile and see how it is. In other words, it's a free country, no one says you have to live in Texas, so if you hate it so much, then get the **** out.


Ohhh the hatred of a keyboard commando that was showed how bad Perry is
 
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