Comments on: Cornyn Touts Texas’ Failing Health Care System As National Model For Improving Access http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/08/14/cornyn-texas-model/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: stateofthedivision http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/08/14/cornyn-texas-model/comment-page-1/#comment-1910 stateofthedivision Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:59:46 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/08/14/cornyn-texas-model/#comment-1910 Ask Dr. Eduardo Sanchez how Texas did improving access to care? He served as the head of the Texas Department of Health, then left to head up a Policy Institute. http://www.uthouston.edu/media/newsreleases/nr2006/sanchez_sph.html That lasted 18 months. Dr. Sanchez was lured by the big bucks at BC/BS. http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/04/28/daily4.html?ana=from_rss My guess is Dr. Sanchez wouldn't offer such effusive praise over Texas' two classes of health care. The divide is clear and palpable. Ask Dr. Eduardo Sanchez how Texas did improving access to care? He served as the head of the Texas Department of Health, then left to head up a Policy Institute.

http://www.uthouston.edu/media/newsreleases/nr2006/sanchez_sph.html

That lasted 18 months. Dr. Sanchez was lured by the big bucks at BC/BS.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/04/28/daily4.html?ana=from_rss

My guess is Dr. Sanchez wouldn’t offer such effusive praise over Texas’ two classes of health care. The divide is clear and palpable.

]]> By: stateofthedivision http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/08/14/cornyn-texas-model/comment-page-1/#comment-1900 stateofthedivision Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:40:45 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/08/14/cornyn-texas-model/#comment-1900 Cornyn's a bleeding idiot. Health care providers spend big bucks competing for the insured patients, but nobody wants the 28% of citizens in my hometown who lack coverage. The state and feds have thrown one roadblock after another into signing people up for CHIP or Medicaid. Cornyn didn't say anything about the 200,000 tossed off the Children's Health Insurance rolls. The feds get credit for supporting our local community health center in a major way. But health care in Texas is built on private sector competition and it's a mess. Doctors and hospitals compete for good paying outpatient testing. Most of the privates don't want to serve the uninsured. Texas is a great example of the failings of Bush's health care strategies. Cornyn should lose his job for his role in perpetuating the same. Cornyn’s a bleeding idiot. Health care providers spend big bucks competing for the insured patients, but nobody wants the 28% of citizens in my hometown who lack coverage.

The state and feds have thrown one roadblock after another into signing people up for CHIP or Medicaid. Cornyn didn’t say anything about the 200,000 tossed off the Children’s Health Insurance rolls.

The feds get credit for supporting our local community health center in a major way. But health care in Texas is built on private sector competition and it’s a mess. Doctors and hospitals compete for good paying outpatient testing. Most of the privates don’t want to serve the uninsured. Texas is a great example of the failings of Bush’s health care strategies. Cornyn should lose his job for his role in perpetuating the same.

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