We have health care providers in Texas that are dropping
their Medicaid recipients right now because the Medicaid system is
not supported enough in Texas.
All while Texas is one of the few states that
has opted out of the Medicaid expansion program.
Are you gonna hold the line on that decision or
are you gonna change your mind?
No, uh we are.
We've been holding the line, but we are doing that
within the confines of our own budget.
We're gonna provide those who really need help, such as
the disabled, the elderly, but we're gonna do so within
the confines of our own budgetary resources.
In other words, health care coverage will not be expanded.
It will instead be decreased.
Decreased to only those who need it.
But those who need it might not actually be all
who really actually need it in the real world.
It's only to what Governor Abbott believes are those who
need it.
What do you think of Chris Christie, the governor of
New Jersey, announcing this week that he will take the
federal dollars?
Well, I don't know the details of how these other
states operate.
I don't see why we should participate in a program
that is like the sinking Titanic, where all we're doing
is readjusting the chairs on the Titanic.
Medicaid is a broken system and it shouldn't be expanded.
I apologize for interrupting you, but how does Chris Christie
benefit from this decision?
How does Rick Scott benefit from it?
Why would they do it?
I uh I guess they just feel a desperate need
for the money from the federal government now without thinking
about what's gonna happen two, four, and ten years from
now, when their state budgets are gonna be hamstrung.
Two, four and ten years from now, when their state
budgets are gonna be hamstrung.
News flash, that video that I just showed you is
ten years old.
Ten years ago, Governor Abbott said that in t within
ten years the New Jersey system would fall apart.
It does not.
In fact, the New Jersey healthcare system is far superior
to that of Texas.
There is no reason for us Texans to not be
included in the Medicaid expansion program.
We need to elect people and send people to Austin
who care about this and want us to be included
into this program so that we can have the same
level of care that New Jersey does.
This is not a left first spring issue.
This is not Democrat or versus Republican.
Chris Christie's a Republican, he agreed to it, and a
lot of other Republicans do.
We need Medicaid expansion in Texas.