Pay attention in the GOP debates when Texas Gov. Rick Perry starts talking about doing away with “Obamacare.”
A Gallup poll released today, which surveyed 177,237 Americans daily from January to June 2011, has found that:
“Texas residents continue to be the most likely in the United States to lack health coverage, with 27.2 percent reporting being uninsured in the first half of 2011.”
(…)
“Eight of the 10 states with the highest uninsured rates in the country are in the South.”
They are, in order from the bottom up: Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, North Carolina and Georgia.
Republican states where citizens have been convinced the country's healthcare woes are the result of so-called “Obamacare.”
Diagnosis: A bad case of dumbass. Recommended treatment: Lay off the red herrings.
UPDATE: CNN promo on GOP debate Sept. 7:
“Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney clashed over job creation, health care”
For the record, the poll cited above found that Massachusetts tops the list of 50 states with the most citizens having health insurance.
Read the GOP debate wrapup HERE.
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1 comment:
Well, as you probably know by now, the cowboy is avoiding the debate by flying off to Texas to oversee the firefighting efforts. No doubt, most people wish he'd just stay away.
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