Texas Senate Republicans demand freedom to revamp Medicaid

[TexasTowelie]

For Texas Independence Day, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and the Senate’s 20 Republicans on Monday vented their frustration over Medicaid’s costs and federal requirements.

Patrick complained about “overreaching federal mandates” and demanded the leeway to “manage our own Medicaid.”

He and all of the chamber’s Republicans sent President Barack Obama a letter demanding flexibility to revamp Texas’ version of Medicaid, a state-federal health insurance program for the poor, elderly and disabled.

Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, quickly acknowledged at a Capitol news conference that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services probably is not going to give the Texas Republicans what they want.

Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/03/senate-republicans-demand-freedom-to-revamp-medicaid.html/

[font color=green]Texas Republicans are petulant with their "demands."[/font]

[hollysmom]

1. yes far too much of the money is being wasted on the poor and

not going into the general fund so they can reduce the taxes ib oil companies again