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August 22nd, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Texas Gov. Rick Perry was an opponent of Obamacare but he is now seeking federal dollars for the Medicaid program, a part of Obamacare, which could have helped 1.5 million poor Texans afford basic health benefits.
Politico reported Tuesday evening that Perry’s health aides are negotiating on the terms of an optional Obamacare program that would allow Texas to claim stepped-up Medicaid funding for the care of people with disabilities.
Some 12,000 Texans are expected to benefit in the first year of the so-called Community First Choice program, which seeks to enhance the quality of services available to the disabled and elderly in their homes or communities.
Perry’s spokespeople told Politico that the governor’s support for the program does not change his position on the Affordable Care Act, which grants state funding to expand the Community First Choice.
“Long before Obamacare was forced on the American people, Texas was implementing policies to provide those with intellectual disabilities more community options to enable them to live more independent lives, at a lower cost to taxpayers,” said the spokesperson in a statement.
“The Texas Health and Human Services Commission will continue to move forward with these policies because they are right for our citizens and our state, regardless of whatever funding schemes may be found in Obamacare.”
However, Eddie Vale, spokesman for the pro-Obamacare group Protect Your Care, said Perry’s decision is a positive sign.
“This is yet another sign that common-sense Republicans, and now even Rick Perry, are realizing that Obamacare will benefit millions of people in their states,” he told Politico.
“As people continue to work together in a bipartisan manner to implement Obamacare it will leave the extremist repealers like Cruz and DeMint increasingly isolated.”
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Source Article from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/22/319921/obamacare-critic-seeks-cash-from-law/
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