Proposed compact would return health care funding & autonomy to the states
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Americas health care crisis is not going to be solved by Washington DC but rather by getting those decisions out of DC and back to the people of Texas" said
TPPF Exec. Director Arlene Wohlgemuth. The Texas Legislatures approval of our states participation in the Health Care Compact is one huge step forward to having health care decisions made as close to home as possible ideally by citizens in consultation with their physicians without interference from the federal government."
The Texas Legislature deserves praise for sending the Health Care Compact to Gov. Rick Perrys desk the Texas Public Policy Foundation said. The Health Care Compact was included in the conference committee report on Senate Bill 7 which won final approval in both houses earlier today.
Once Gov. Rick Perry signs Senate Bill 7 Texas will join Georgia and Oklahoma as participants in the Health Care Compact. Legislation has also been introduced or is being drafted in at least one dozen other states.
Medicaid in its present form is unsustainable for Texas" Wohlgemuth said. Without the flexibility and cost predictability provided by the Health Care Compact the federal Medicaid program will further crowd out core state government functions such as education public safety and transportation."
The Honorable Arlene Wohlgemuth is the Executive Director and Director of the Center for Health Care Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation a non-profit free-market research institute based in Austin. She served 10 years in the Texas House of Representatives specializing in health care issues.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-profit free-market research institute based in Austin.
