Rick Perry Defends Measures to Protect Texans against Obamacare's Lack of Security

Gov. Rick Perry is defending Texas's decision to strengthen qualification requirements for Obamacare navigators, saying it's not the state's fault that President Barack Obama's signature healthcare program has so many problems. 

"Obamacare offers virtually no protection for consumers shopping for health coverage through these so-called navigators," the Republican governor wrote in an scathing op-ed piece that appeared Thursday in The Austin American-Statesman.

The former GOP 2012 presidential candidate, and possible 2016 candidate, also took Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to task for suggesting that Obamacare enrollment would be going a lot smoother if "it weren't for all those pesky Texans getting in the way," as the governor put it. 

The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) is implementing "commonsense" rules for navigators who "probe Texans for their most personal and private information in the name of signing consumers up for Obamacare," Perry wrote. "These rules are especially important given the minimal federal requirements navigators must meet."

The rules include basic measures like criminal background checks, Perry said, to help protect Texans. 

"Secretary Sebelius herself admitted federal navigators underwent no background check at all and could, in fact, be felons," he continued. "TDI’s rules will help ensure felons, including convicted sex offenders, are not knocking on Texans’ doors under the guise of signing them up for insurance, and that Texans aren’t giving out their most private and sensitive information to someone already convicted of fraud or identity theft."

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