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Perry shirks his duty on Texans’ health care

July 12th, 2012 Austin American-Statesman

Gov. Rick Perry threw Texans under the bus Monday when he announced our state would not expand Medicaid, leaving $76 billion from the federal government on the table.

He also refused to create a health care exchange, an online market allowing the uninsured to shop for coverage.

You can just see him pounding his chest as he composed the letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius: “Both represent brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state.”

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