In the past years many
Americans followed the news for the Patient Protection and the
Affordable Care Act, that was signed into law in early 2010. The
steps to enacting it completely are taken slowly until 2022. While
many people oppose the idea of it, others are glad to get more
medical support.
The Texas Tribune article “TheBrief: Texas Political News for Sept. 17, 2013, The Big Conversation”
by David Mutto, describes Texas governor Rick Perry's newly taken
steps to his opposition to ObamaCare. In a letter Perry stated that
“Texas will not expand Medicaid under ObamaCare”. Furthermore he
said that investing amounts of money into the problem, as the federal
government does, won't help it to go away. The plan for Medicaid is
to reform it without “federal approval”, and to keep on the testing who is eligible for it. People are supposed to be responsible and
at the same time more independent from the government. Also, Perry
wants the costs of Medicaid to be steady, thus he wants to improve
its organization. Texas is one of many republican states that wants
to expand Medicaid instead of ObamaCare. Since according to Health
and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius, negotiations with the
Obama administration haven't started yet, it remains unknown whether
Texas' request will be accepted.
Health insurance is a
topic that probably all of us will have to care about at some point,
especially due to the fact that almost all Americans have to get
insurance in early 2014. However the way people will deal with it
depends a lot on peoples' history concerning medical conditions,
their political views and the state they live in. This article
reflects the way Texas plans to deal with the topic of health care in
the future. Since at some point, we will all be affected by ObamaCare, or here in Texas to the changes of Medicare, it is interesting and maybe even helpful to know how our state of
residency deals with the topic of healthcare.
