Politifarce strikes again... on health care...

Politifact once again screws up... labels their check incorrectly... I am not going to link to it because that just gives them more satisfaction.

Here is the claim they mangled... errr... checked out...

Says Texas has been waiting for two years for the federal government to act on a proposal to allow the state to "create insurance opportunities for those that are uninsured today."

Here is what they wrote...

Texas has “had for over two years, waiver requests in front of the Health and Human Services committee — before this administration (of Democratic President Barack Obama) got into place, I might add — that allowed us some flexibility ... to use dollars differently than what are mandated by the federal government to create insurance opportunities for those that are uninsured today,” Perry said.

[SNIP]

The governor is correct that the state sought federal permission about two years ago to redirect Medicaid hospital funds into a state pool intended to help some low-income Texans get private insurance. Since then, state and federal officials have gone back and forth on the request, with no resolution.

Perry portrays the request as still awaiting action by the feds. But the federal agency has told state officials that their proposal needs revision before it can be formally considered. In that sense, federal officials have acted, and the state is responsible for the latest delay that Perry decries.

Yet, here is what they concluded...

This is yet another example of Politifact's biased agenda...

Rick's statement was absolutely correct. The federal government has had a waiver proposal from the state of Texas in front of it for more than two years... and they have not granted Texas the required federal permission to act on it...

The state is not responsible for the delay. There is a difference of philosophy between the state and the federal government. Neither side wants to budge. Ultimately the state is prohibited from acting until the federal government grants permission, but the federal government does not want to grant permission because they like having control and do not want to relinquish control to states...

When Politifact sez that the state needs to revise its proposal, what that really means is that the federal government wants the state to "revise" it in the same way that an authoritarian book editor makes an author "edit" out an entire character or storyline out of a book. It is not a minor quibble over grammar... it gets to the heart of the entire waiver application.

The federal government is basically telling Texas "hey, take out all of those ideas and conform to our standards, and we'll talk."

Politifact is nothing more than politopinion... written by a liberal staff with an agenda...