The 2016 GOP presidential contest is looking mighty familiar.
Brainy Rick Perry is already declining healthcare coverage for 1.3 million Texans because Medicaid's expansion is part of Obama's "brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state"; and lonely Jon Huntsman "will not be attending this year's convention, nor any Republican convention in the future," says he, "until the party focuses on a bigger, bolder, more confident future for the United States."
So, they're off.
Meanwhile, Jeb is pursuing legal arrangements to add an "e" to the end of "Bush."
For those who do not know, Nashville is the hub of the US healthcare industry. See Hospital Corporation of America/Bill Frist and family (and once upon a time Governor Rick Scott, former CEO of HCA.
This past week, the Tennessee Hospital association issued a formal declaration urging Tennessee to accept the new Medicaid money. It seems the healthcare industry (second only in size to the financial industry) thinks all these new revenue sources might be a good thing.
Governor Rick (TX) and Governor Rick (FL)will be receiving their memos soon enough.
One other tangent: the best management practices ("death panels")of Obamacare will be secretly embraced. Having those standards are a bullet-proof shield for the majority of malpractice suits.
Posted by: Robert Lipscomb | July 10, 2012 at 09:15 AM