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URBANDALE, Iowa -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday warned that President Obama's health reform law could result in the death of ill patients, relating the story of a cancer patient he met Tuesday at a campaign stop in Creston, Iowa.
"She came up to me and she said 'Governor, if you don't get rid of Obamacare, I'm dead," he recounted. "She said they will never take care of me. And that's a powerful testimony by that lady."
The governor, who won cheers for his promise to use an executive order to gut the law, though most of the health reform law's major components haven't gone into effect yet. Perry spoke to a packed house at the biweekly breakfast meeting of the Westside Conservative Club at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Urbandale.
Perry, a veteran who served in the United States Air Force, also unveiled a new swipe at Obama for failing to schedule a "simple parade" for soldiers returning from Iraq.
"It really disturbs me that nearly after 10 years of war that this president wouldn't welcome home those heroes with a simple parade," he said, briefly appearing to become emotional. "Maybe it's because this war is unpopular with the Democrats, I don't know. But Mr. President, our soldiers come first."
The Texas governor, who has been haunted by a memorable debate gaffe from the CNBC debate last month, found himself in a refreshing position at the start of the event: correcting someone else's oops.
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a top surrogate for Perry, especially on the issue of immigration, introduced the candidate at the breakfast meeting, beginning his remarks with a shout out to the "Buckeyes."
The home team for fans of the University of Iowa is the Hawkeyes; the Buckeyes are the mascot of Ohio State University. The crowd laughed and booed as Arpaio joked, "It's 3 o'clock Phoenix time."
Taking the microphone minutes later, Perry leapt in for the save, referencing another college team with dedicated fans in the state.
"Actually, there's probably some Cyclones in this crowd," he said, referencing Iowa State's team, after teasing Arpaio for the error.
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So, Gov. Perry, can you give us the NAME OF THIS WOMAN WHO IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE ASKED YOU TO GUT OBAMACARE????? I love how these guys get away with making up stories like this without any proof that the stories are true. Just like FAUX NEWS. Just say, "somebody said" and the lemmings BELIEVE!
For one thing. There are way too many pertinent facts left out. Facts that would give us a reason why Obamacare would kill this phantom woman. But facts are never needed when speaking to the right wingers. The word OBAMACARE is actually a swear word to them. It invokes visions of witches, warlocks, demons, serial killers, doctors with war masks and swords. Whatever. I just know that their right wing media heroes have done a wonderful job of stirring up hysteria based on NO FACTS OR INFORMATION WHATSOEVER. It really gives me chills to realize how many of these people listening to Perry an the other right wing candidates are so brain washed or brain dead and yet they have the power to send our nation back to the Bush days so the right wingers can finish the plan they were working on.
Look for the Spanish inquisition style hearings if any of these idiots manages to become our President.
These people just say off whatever comes into their tiny heads and claim it is factual! Ridiculous! No facts, names, etc, Perry is just as desperate as Bachman so he is throwing crap against the wall!
Jo-An,
Obama uses peoples names in his speeches, to prove a point, all the time. Do you spew the same hate towards him when he does it?
Gee Leona, I didn't hear Perry "use a name".....did you? He just threw out a LIE, to scare people!
Jo-An,
How do you know "he )Perry) threw out a lie?"
BTW, I noticed you don't answer the question I asked about when Obama does the same thing.
Leona. Are you drunk or something? The fact that President Obama does give the names of people he uses to make a point in his speaches is proof that the person does exist. The point of my comment is that Perry DID NOT GIVE THE NAME OF THE PERSON he used to make a point. SO HOW DO WE KNOW THE PERSON EXISTS OR ACTUALLY SAID WHAT HE SAYS SHE SAID? Do you understand yet?
@consider-it, funny, LEONA makes no sense! Thank you!
@LEONA-read consider-it's post! Hello? Obama use's "names" not "some woman said"... WOW!
Jo-An,
Some people don't want their name used in a speech, so if Perry said "some woman said....", that's OK and it does not mean he lied. Just because you want to say "Perry lied to scare people", doesn't mean he did.
Must have been the same woman who approached Bachmann regarding her daughter becoming mentally ill after taking a birth control shot....
INDEED!!
It was a HPV vaccination but your point remains valid.
Why is this idiot allowed to speak everytime he does he proves further that he is a complete imbecile. A woman who is dying of cancer makes an inflammatory statement to him and he goes off without fact before the health care plan goes into effect. Is Governor Perry having a parade for the soldiers homecoming in Texas? I thought so what a freekin' tool!!
LEONA-2986819....Leona.Honey,All presidents use the names of people in their speeches.
There's no bigger threat to patients than the right wingers. Perry is one of the stupid "pro-lifers" who doesn't care about you once you are born. You have to be a complete moron to vote GOP because if you do you are voting against your own interests.
Exactly, because the GOP have no health care policy.
Leona-- in post 26 you said a canadian provincial Premier wrote the article. In 26.5 you said a doctor wrote it. Which is it?
Neither! Leona took a tiny bit of truth (the premier did go to US for heart surgery) and twisted to "prove" why Canadian healthcare is "bad".
Canadian healthcare may not be perfect but it sure beats American "non-healthcare".
As someone said earlier, many American's without insurance just "go to the hospital" and hope to pay off their bill "$20 a month"!
Seriously? And we wonder why healthcare costs are out of control!
WAKE UP TEA BAGGERS!
So true...we may have some of the best technology here in our health care, but it's only available to those who can afford it. One of my teacher friends had to be hospitalized while traveling in England. She was there for over a week, had excellent treatment and walked out without having to pay a dime. We are WAY, WAY behind the rest of the world...outside of third world countries. Sad, when it could be otherwise.
That Arpaio...always thinking you can tell a Buckeye from a Hawkeye just by looks.
So Perry is now channeling Bachmann with the mysterious "lady told me" with little factual information to go along with it.
Leona better cool it for awhile.....
OBama health care, If it`s good for the peolpe then it`s bad for the Big insurance companies and corrupted politicians. They stand to lose millions of dollars$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. that we have pay for health insurance.
If your unsure about this health care plan, Google and research it, find out what it really does for you. Don't let some corrupt politician brought by the big insurance companies tell what they want you to do, just like big banks do.
If you think Obama health care plan is good for you and for the people and their families( the 99ers )..Then we are in control for the first time to make a choice for our self's for our health..That is why they are trying to repeal this bill
Your all upset Patty because you misunderstand our health care problem. According to the world health organization per capita income we pay $6000 per year among industrialized countries the next highest would be Japan at slightly over $3000, but the problem is, WE'RE NOT HEALTHIER, cancer, vasular disease, diabetes, pulmonary disease, in fact this country is FAT and the least healthiest. So I ask you, why are we paying twice as much for our care and no healthier than Japan, Europe, Austrailia, Canada???????? Let me telll you why, under the current system that Repulbicans never wanted to change, we have plenty of interventional physicians who will gladly put a vascular stint in anyone for $50,000, so they can keep their BMW's but very few physicians who will take that same patient 20 years before and look them straight in the eye and say lose weight FAT ASS and let's change your diet & start exercising and I will hold you accountable,we don't have that NOW. There's a much better chance under Obama care to manage costs by preventive outcomes that would be MANDATED.
Gov. Perry is running for President, and briefly led in the GOP polls.
Is this where he gets his information about healthcare policy, and the bill that passed last year?
Perry is an idiot. Short on caring about details. I didn't see where he explained how Obama's healthcare plan was going to kill the women in the story. I do know the system we do have now is killing thousands people because so many can't get healthcare due loss of jobs, low income jobs without healthcare benefits and/or pre-existing conditions.
This Republican field has absolutely no scruples when it comes to the lies they tell. It really is incredible. The sad thing is...the more they say them, the more people believe them. Where are all the Dems to speak up? I really think if they'd just get out there and sell the message better...things will go well in 2012...If not, YIKES...we will end up with Right-winged crazies running the country...welcome in another war, more poverty, fewer jobs, dirty air and water, drilling for oil in pristine areas, no banking regulations, fewer jobs, less services, less watch on air travel, highways, bridges, medicare becoming a "voucher" system, social security disappearing as we know it, money buying whatever it wants in politics, and the rich getting richer and richer by the minute. Not my idea of a good time.
Stop printing negative stories about the chosen one, the messiah, the KING!...his word is law!...(until 2012.)
Why don't we just give Obama a second term-save us from all this national embarrassment of GOP candidates-save all that wasted money and put it to use elsewhere-like college funds for poor students,etc. and encourage these pols to get a job doing something they can be proud of instead of being full-time opportunists and clones for Wall St ? Can you imagine any one of them being POTUS ? God forbid !
Is Perry really that stupid or is he simply pretending in order to obtain the votes of the Tea Party?
Perry is doing a great job in Texas, thats why lots of California residents and businesses are moving there.
The definition of "STUPID" is when people vote for a NON-leader like Obama to be President AGAIN for another 4 more years of failure.
"They won't take care of me?". What a load of crap. They still take care of you, but if you choose something not covered "you pay" out of your pocket for it. I do it all the time with my "private insurance". That's right folks, you can get all the care you want if you agree to pay what is not covered. So, please don't BS about only gov't insurance does it, so does the private industry. I have BC/BS and this is common with them. Enough stories already.
People from countries like Canada still come here for healthcare, when it's a serious illness, because the quality of care is better here.
"Enough stories already."
You never addressed the issue I spoke of. Wake up.
Yah your right, you have to come out of pocket, which is why medical conditions are the leading reason for personal bankruptcies. Facilities will treat you without insurance, well, some of them will, and then they will come after you if you have no resources. So Sammie 2381604 is some what correct. The other part of the equation is that hospitals are forced into cutting expenses. For instance the standard of care in a in patient hospital setting is 1RN:10 patients, almost every hospitals ration is 1RN: 21 patients, to cut costs "of course" because ther current system is so OUT OF BALANCE.& THEY HAVE TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR THEIR SHAREHOLDERS.
I kinda wonder about this claim that 47 percent of people pay no income tax? My take home pay is not even close to my gross pay. Even when I add back the federal taxes there is a big difference. When I was unemployed, I had to pay taxes on it. My city even has a employment tax that I can never get back. If corporations use loop holes to skip from paying taxes or even to get back billions of dollars, Americans pay 4 times a much in income tax as corporate america and 66 percent of corporate america pay no income tax
For Perry to exploit the misunderstanding of a gullible paranoid woman who has cancer is despicable. He missed an opportunity to explain to the lady that what he calls "Obama-care" will not adversely affect her care, and it will help thousands of other people obtain care. He objects to the funding and enforcement mechanisms of the law, and that is his right, but misrepresenting the facts, and exploiting the anxiety of a cancer victim is conduct that demonstrates that he is morally and ethically unfit to be president of the USA.
Read about this plan, find out if it would work you and your family.
The most misunderstood legislation of the past 50 years is Obama-care with every type of lie thrown at it to prevent it's development. Then the FOX news, "it's a failed plan!!" How can it fail when it hasn't gotten off the ground??????? Notice any health care initiative was never brought out in the Bush years??? Only when Obama put forth any plan, all of a sudden, "WE HAVE A BETTER PLAN, WE HAVE A BETTER PLAN". Where was the plan before Obama came on the scene?? The Republicans have no plan, they never had, YOU SEE, they don't believe in policy and government, all they can come up with is "LET INSURANCE CO. COMPETE WITH EACH OTHER, EVEN ACROSS STATE LINES' That's all they can come up with!!
A huge deal was made regarding Bush 43's military role as a pilot during the Vietnam War. There was an inherent risk flying F4 Phantoms, even in non-combat training. Obama had ZERO military service, and no one made the slightest comment about this then or now. I know an active Army Ranger who personally told me that Obama was an embarrassment to the US Army, but because of his position could not make a public comment.
I spent 4 years in the U.S. Army, does that make me a good candidate for president of the U.S.???