1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,400 We have health care providers in Texas that are dropping 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,680 their Medicaid recipients right now because the Medicaid system is 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:07,280 not supported enough in Texas. 4 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:09,200 All while Texas is one of the few states that 5 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,360 has opted out of the Medicaid expansion program. 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:20,880 Are you gonna hold the line on that decision or 7 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:22,400 are you gonna change your mind? 8 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:23,280 No, uh we are. 9 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,840 We've been holding the line, but we are doing that 10 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,160 within the confines of our own budget. 11 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,600 We're gonna provide those who really need help, such as 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,720 the disabled, the elderly, but we're gonna do so within 13 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,320 the confines of our own budgetary resources. 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,720 In other words, health care coverage will not be expanded. 15 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:52,560 It will instead be decreased. 16 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,800 Decreased to only those who need it. 17 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,360 But those who need it might not actually be all 18 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,760 who really actually need it in the real world. 19 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,280 It's only to what Governor Abbott believes are those who 20 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:03,920 need it. 21 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:10,960 What do you think of Chris Christie, the governor of 22 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:13,760 New Jersey, announcing this week that he will take the 23 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:14,880 federal dollars? 24 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:17,040 Well, I don't know the details of how these other 25 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:17,680 states operate. 26 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,240 I don't see why we should participate in a program 27 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:23,040 that is like the sinking Titanic, where all we're doing 28 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,600 is readjusting the chairs on the Titanic. 29 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,440 Medicaid is a broken system and it shouldn't be expanded. 30 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,320 I apologize for interrupting you, but how does Chris Christie 31 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:33,920 benefit from this decision? 32 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,320 How does Rick Scott benefit from it? 33 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:37,680 Why would they do it? 34 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,200 I uh I guess they just feel a desperate need 35 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,680 for the money from the federal government now without thinking 36 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,560 about what's gonna happen two, four, and ten years from 37 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,720 now, when their state budgets are gonna be hamstrung. 38 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,960 Two, four and ten years from now, when their state 39 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:54,800 budgets are gonna be hamstrung. 40 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,040 News flash, that video that I just showed you is 41 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:58,000 ten years old. 42 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,440 Ten years ago, Governor Abbott said that in t within 43 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,840 ten years the New Jersey system would fall apart. 44 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:03,480 It does not. 45 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:05,880 In fact, the New Jersey healthcare system is far superior 46 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:07,000 to that of Texas. 47 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,000 There is no reason for us Texans to not be 48 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,320 included in the Medicaid expansion program. 49 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,880 We need to elect people and send people to Austin 50 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,360 who care about this and want us to be included 51 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,840 into this program so that we can have the same 52 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,000 level of care that New Jersey does. 53 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,920 This is not a left first spring issue. 54 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:24,680 This is not Democrat or versus Republican. 55 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,000 Chris Christie's a Republican, he agreed to it, and a 56 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,520 lot of other Republicans do. 57 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,080 We need Medicaid expansion in Texas.