April 6, 2014

PERRspectives: Rick Perry Leads GOP's "Let 'Em Die" Primary for 2016

PERRspectives: Rick Perry Leads GOP's "Let 'Em Die" Primary for 2016

"Thanks to his refusal to expand Medicaid coverage in the Lone Star State, Texas Governor Rick Perry has left two million of his constituents needlessly uninsured and sentenced up to 3,000 annually to needlessly die.

That's the conclusion a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School recently published inHealth Affairs. The authors of "Opting Out Of Medicaid Expansion: The Health And Financial Impacts" tallied up the coming body count in the Republican states that rejected the ACA's extension of Medicaid to millions of their residents"