Blog 5

     There are 1.4 million people that are uninsured in Texas. Medicate is being denied to parents with children, who are making $3,737 a year. They don’t qualify for medicate. What’s it going to take to convince governors to opt into this? Is it antagonism? Or is it persuasion? People have tried the whole range of it. The governors’ decision to reject the medicate is very unconscionable. 1 out of very 4 Texans doesn’t have Healthcare insurance. About 30% of Texas women and 38% of hispanics in Texas don’t have Healthcare coverage. A change in the politics, in the government and of the party leadership in Texas, is what its going to take to really make a difference.  There’s no economic argument about about not expanding medicate. Democrats are liberals who make their decisions from the heart, and republicans are conservatives who make decisions from their mind. In this case, in both the heart and the mind, it’s clear what should be done. Medicate should be expanded. People work and work and work and then, they don’t have basic Healthcare. This isn’t the country we all believe in.    

    Republicans are so opposed to the medicaid expansion. Across the country, in every single state, republicans are saying that they really don’t want to take the medicate expansion money, and they would rather leave hundreds of thousands of citizens totally uninsured and totally without access to Healthcare. David Hogberg,  who’s a Health Care Policy Analyst with the National Center for Public Policy Research, opposed a public policy that would give Healthcare to roughly 5 million people who don’t have it, and according to Harvard University, that would save at least 17,000  lives. It would also create hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country. Hogberg is opposed to it because he believed that Medicaid doesn’t give that much access. He believed  that the country should have a system where Primary Care doctors don’t take most types of insurance. He believed that Primary Care is relatively cheap, and what all people are doing with an insurance system is putting more cost in terms of paper work. He thought its a matter of not giving false hopes to people.