Obamacare Wins: Texas Is Now The ONLY State With Uninsured Rate Above 20%

[DonViejo]

by Omar Rivero • August 11, 2015

The Affordable Care Act has been the law of the land for two years now, and the numbers of success keep rolling in. In 2013, before the passage of the healthcare law (also known as Obamacare), fourteen states had rates of uninsured citizens as high as 20%. Now, there is only one such state left, because their governor rejected Medicaid expansion and has fought tooth and nail to prevent their citizens from getting affordable healthcare.

Surprise! It’s Texas, who had a shocking 27% uninsured rate in 2013 and has barely managed to drop that down to 21% over the past two years. One in five Texans still do not have health insurance. On the other hand, California has halved their uninsured rate in that time; Kentucky and Arkansas, both red states, went from 20% uninsured to 9% during that same period.

It goes without saying that the most decreases in the rates of uninsured Americans took place in states which expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. A total of 16.4 million Americans have received health insurance since the law was enacted, bringing the national average down from 20% uninsured to 13.2%. It would appear that most of those people live in the South and Midwest, under Republican governors; New England states have covered 95% of their population.

It just goes to show how much of an impact the Affordable Care Act has had on the lives of Americans, and how Republican governors, while they reject the ACA, have utterly failed to to provide any kind of substantial alternative or relief for their constituents. We hope the people of Texas cast their vote for a President who will honestly look out for their well-being during the next election.

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http://www.occupydemocrats.com/obamacare-wins-texas-is-now-the-only-state-with-uninsured-rate-above-20/

[Thinkingabout]

1. The medical facilities in Texas should rise up against those holding up medicaid expansion

so the facilities can be paid by those who are unable to pay just because we have those in charge with their heads up their asses. It is a shame and the leaders are not leaders but a$$holes for not making this move.

[daybranch]

2. Texans have proven once again their ability to select bad governors

But they will soon be a blue state as they keep punishing their people, and when they stop blaming immigrants.

[Gothmog]

3. Texas hospitals are hurting

My state house representative is a republican but he is a sane one who pushed for medicaid expansion in part becuase he is on the board of a couple of hospitals

[tabasco]

6. While rural WV hospitals are singing the praises of the ACA

I stopped trying to figure out why people vote for radical anti-worker republicans. I came to accept there are a lot of stupid people in the world.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

4. How can California have such a low uninsured rate?

Are they not counting immigrants here illegally?

[tabasco]

5. 150,000 covered by expanded Medicaid in WV alone

The ACA is not the final end state we need, but it is a huge improvement on the way to a better system.