Rick Perry ‘proudly’ refuses health care to 1.2 million low-income Texans

[Zioneer]

The thing that's interesting about all these high-profile conservative governors refusing to implement the ACA is that it's only a certain type of governor doing so. In fact, I can list the governors who have publicly refused the ACA (with a little bit of searching): Perry, Jindal, Scott Walker, Mitch Daniels, Rick Scott, Sam Brownback, Terry Brandstand, Denis Daugaard, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley (so far).

Now what do they all have in common? Well, most of them have shown interest in high office; Perry and Brownback have even ran for the presidency before. All of them are Republican, but the point is that most of those governors have indicated or implied that they'd like bigger and better things than governor.

On the other hand, my state's very conservative governor Gary Herbert has indicated that, while he'd like the ACA to be repealed and he's hoping for an Obama defeat in November, he's not going to defy the Feds and refuse to implement the ACA. You'd think Herbert, being the governor of one of the most conservative states in the Union, would publicly fight against "Obamacare", but he doesn't. So my theory is that unless there's a critical mass of states refusing to implement the ACA, it'll mostly be the ambitious Governors doing it.