Rick Perry Clueless On Use Of Executive Presidential Powers To Kill Obamacare

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Rick Perry Clueless On Use Of Executive Presidential Powers To Kill Obamacare

Rick Ungar, Contributor
8/21/2011 @ 3:18PM

Looking toward to a not-s0-distant future where Rick Perry could occupy the Oval Office, candidate Perry had this to say when speaking last week in South Carolina-

"If I’m so fortunate to be elected the president of the United States, on Day One, when I walk into the Oval Office, there will be an executive order on that desk that eliminates as much of ObamaCare that I can have done with an executive order."

What should disturb you about this vision of the future is not so much that a President Perry would try to bring Obamacare to an end as that is to be expected from any GOP contender.What should give you pause is that, in a Perry White House, our 45th president would begin his term by signing an executive order that would be, for all real purposes, a blank page.

Talk about an inauspicious beginning as representative of what I fear we might continue to expect from a President Perry.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/08/21/rick-perry-clueless-on-executive-presidential-powers-to-wipe-out-obamacare/

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1. Or how about the fact that on the very first day of

a Perry Presidency he'd go around the Congress, first thing...very first thing.

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2. How stupid are his supporters, to believe this crapola? Other interesting paragraphs:

"Under Florida’s law, a health insurance company is only required to spend 65%-70% of premium income on actual health care. The ACA requires 80%-85% be spent on actual health care benefits and further states that the new formula take effect in 2011. Insurers failing to meet the requirement would be subject to huge penalties in the way of rebates to their customers."

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And if you think this is an example of why it is just awful that the federal government is messing in health care insurance requirements rather than leave it to the states, might I respectfully suggest that the logic requires that you rethink this one.

Health insurance companies who only spend 65% of the premium money they collect on actual health care for their beneficiaries do so to benefit their own bank accounts. Because they use this low amount of receipts to pay for actual care, as health care costs go up, they have to charge you more because they are only spending 65 cents of every dollar you send them to pay for actual care. The rest of your money goes into their pocket to pay for inflated overhead -including the people they employ to try to deny you the coverage you paid for- and, of course, profit."

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4. perry's "vision" for america

Consider the Texas that Perry holds up to the rest of the nation for admiration. It has the fourth-highest poverty rate of any state. It tied with Mississippi last year for the highest percentage of workers in minimum-wage jobs. It ranks first in adults without high school diplomas. Twenty-six percent of Texans have no health insurance — the highest percentage of medically uninsured residents of any state. It leads the nation in the percentage of children who lack medical insurance. Texas has an inordinate number of employers who provide no insurance to their workers, partly because insurance rates are high, thanks to an absence of regulations. :puke:

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/rick-perry-s-economics-loser-people

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5. Dems should memorize those statistics. And recite them wherever appropriate.

thanks for the link

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7. agreed...he is total corporate tool and heartless asshole

you're welcome :)

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3. I am reminded of the video of Sarah Palin saying, "What exaclty

does the vice president do?"

These fools want the jobs, but they have no clue about what is involved in actually doing them! They just want to be the head honcho.

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6. You can just stop at the first three words.

That says it all.