COURTESY OF DIANNE LAIRD
LEFT
OUT
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius earlier this year. The health care law’s
“unsound encroachments will find
no foothold here,” he declared.
Perry has also described the
Medicaid expansion as a fiscal
threat, questioning whether Washington can be relied upon to deliver
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its promised funding going forward.
Experts say such opposition
masks the real cause of concern in
states such as Texas and Louisiana:
They fear what has become known
as “the woodwork effect,” with
the Medicaid expansion serving to
publicize the existence of the program, prompting a surge of people
to enroll.
That surge would include not
Dianne Laird,
a 57-yearold Texas
resident who
lacks health
insurance.