The Affordable Care Act: A Case Study
In 2013 the states were given the opportunity to expand on Medicaid under the affordable care act. With this expansion the government would pay a 100 percent for the first three years and reduce down to 90 percent over ten years. Many of the southern states chose not to expand and went on to search for private insurance companies to help cover the cost they would be losing in the future years. These states include Texas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. Two state that are undecided is Tennessee and Indiana. Texas was all for making sure people were insured in health and wellness but they had their own idea of covering them.
Texas has been an independent state for a long time now, our
government likes to take charge and do their own thing. We follow what the national government laws because we have to and if we do not who knows what would happen to us but we do like to make our own laws. For many years now Texas has made sure people had health cover rather it was through an employer or a private insurance company. Obama warned Texas that these others states knew what was best and were not going to have to lose as much money as Texas. By the 2022 comes around Texas would have loosed 9.2 billion dollars compared to the other states where they would have only loosed about 2-5 billion dollars.
There is other Americans besides Texans losing their health care insurance policies due to the affordable care act. Some people will say the health insurance is a form of socialism, taking from the health and giving to the sick. That is somewhat true, health care facilities like to take on anyone which increases the number of sick people that insurers have to cover. I personally believe that we made a beneficial decision because it means the government would not be able to control who we insure and who we do not insure or how much we can insure them.
You might be asking what is Texas specifically going to do to cover the cost of not expanding. Some have said that taxpayers would be covering that cost and that taxes could raise due to not expanding and trying to cover the cost. Texas did not say they would raise their tax rates in order to cover the cost. Has anyone asked what would have happened if all the states had expanded? Well the new program could insure up 21 Americans that make less than 138 percent of federal poverty rate.
Texas has been an independent state for a long time now, our
government likes to take charge and do their own thing. We follow what the national government laws because we have to and if we do not who knows what would happen to us but we do like to make our own laws. For many years now Texas has made sure people had health cover rather it was through an employer or a private insurance company. Obama warned Texas that these others states knew what was best and were not going to have to lose as much money as Texas. By the 2022 comes around Texas would have loosed 9.2 billion dollars compared to the other states where they would have only loosed about 2-5 billion dollars.
There is other Americans besides Texans losing their health care insurance policies due to the affordable care act. Some people will say the health insurance is a form of socialism, taking from the health and giving to the sick. That is somewhat true, health care facilities like to take on anyone which increases the number of sick people that insurers have to cover. I personally believe that we made a beneficial decision because it means the government would not be able to control who we insure and who we do not insure or how much we can insure them.
You might be asking what is Texas specifically going to do to cover the cost of not expanding. Some have said that taxpayers would be covering that cost and that taxes could raise due to not expanding and trying to cover the cost. Texas did not say they would raise their tax rates in order to cover the cost. Has anyone asked what would have happened if all the states had expanded? Well the new program could insure up 21 Americans that make less than 138 percent of federal poverty rate.