After recently calling Obamacare a "criminal act" Rick Perry is now quietly urging his constituents to sign up for it. Because you know, hypocrisy.

"Well crap!"

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

The government of Texas under Republican Gov. Rick Perry quietly began to shut down its high risk insurance pool program this week and urged users to enroll in the health care programs offered to people with pre-existing conditions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — also known as Obamacare. Think Progress reported that the high risk pool website now directs applicants to the ACA health care exchanges and informs users that the state program will be phased out entirely by January 1, 2014. 

“The state has deemed the high-risk pool obsolete,” the website now says, “as the Affordable Care Act prohibits insurance companies participating in the federal marketplace, which launched on Oct. 1, from denying coverage to Texans with pre-existing conditions. Gov. Rick Perry signed Senate Bill 1367 in June, scheduling the pool’s abolishment.” 

It stated, “The pool will close Jan. 1, and the 23,000 people currently participating in the pool must sign up for coverage on the insurance exchange by Dec. 15 or find coverage elsewhere to avoid a lapse in care.” 

According to the Texas Tribune, since 1998, the high risk pool “has provided high-priced coverage to Texans with pre-existing conditions who can’t find coverage elsewhere."

Insurance policies offered in the federal marketplaces are expected to be half of what families enrolled in the high risk pool have been paying. Also, Pogue (Stacey Pogue, a senior policy analyst for the Center for Public Policy Priorities) said that consumers will have access under the new policies to care not provided under the risk pools, like maternity and pre-natal care. 

What? Rick Perry is is caving into the socialist influence of lower health care costs? The horror!

Why it was only a little over two weeks ago when Perry was saying things like this:  

“If this heath care law is forced upon this country, the young men and women in this audience are the ones who are really going to pay the price,” the governor told a crowd at the Bendix Diner in Hasbrouck Heights, according to The Star-Ledger. “And that, I suggest to you, reaches the point of being a felony toward them and their future.” 

“That is a criminal act, from my perspective, to put that type of burden on them — to mortgage their future like that,” he added. “America cannot stand that.”

Wait, so Perry signed the bill abolishing the high risk insurance pool program in JUNE, knowing full well that would mean they would have to use the Affordable Care exchanges, yet less than three weeks ago was calling Obamacare a "felony?" WTF?

Wow first Jan Brewer in Arizona, and now Rick Perry in Texas. You know pretty soon there won't be ANYBODY left in Sarah Palin's "Let's all hate on Obamacare" fan club.