Did Texas Leave You Out?
With ACA signups in the rearview mirror and the numbers ratcheting up to 8 million or so, much of the bluff and bluster of the GOP argument about ACA is evaporating just as quickly as this weekend’s rains. That’s cold comfort for the unfortunate Texans who needed health insurance and were ignored and left out of participating in ACA, even though they may have wanted to do so.
There was a lot of grumbling and resentment and the stubbornly-proud Texas declarations “I’d never sign up for a handout anyway!” by those who were sandwiched in the dreaded coverage gap.
All the pissing and moaning was the sum of not knowing the facts combined with a bunch of star-spangled baggage blaming the President and Washington, instead of placing the blame where it belongs. Getting trapped in the coverage gap was because Governor Perry refused to expand Medicaid. His refusal to do so means 1.5 million Texans will miss out on coverage, including 49,000 veterans.
With Perry’s cavalier decision, Texas has effectively left you some of you out in the cold.
If Perry would surrender his continued urination competition with Washington for the benefit of his fellow Texans, the federal government would pay 100 percent of the cost of Medicaid eligibility expansion in 2014, 2015 and 2016; 95 percent in 2017, 94 percent in 2018, 93 percent in 2019, and 90 percent in 2020. Texas would need only to contribute 10 percent of the cost to help those in the coverage gap.
More at http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/carol-morgan/2014-04-21/did-texas-leave-you-out#.U1aXeJ0o75o .
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