Texas’ Decision Should Texas have Medicaid or not? Texas has decided to refuse expansion of the Medicaid program under the Federal Affordable Texas Law. Now, the huge question remains, “Has Texas made the right decisions or did Texas move to fasting the decision making? “Medicaid helps the lower class families with the cost of Medicaid bills, but Medicaid is fun by states where coverage may vary. In an article “Texas”, Texas had 83.7% of people who participated in Medicaid in the year of 2015. There is Texas who support having Medicaid and people who is against Medicaid. I believe Texas should have expanded Medicaid because not everyone is fortune to pay out of pocket for medical emergency. Texas should have expanded Medicaid throughout the …show more content…
Texans would answer the question by Texas does not have the money to keep the program running smoothly like we did before. Texas refused to expand Medicaid because they are low on money to pay for everyone to have health insurance. In an article, Medicaid in Texas covered over four million Texans and the cost was roughly over forty billion dollars each passing year. Texas was leading the other states with the rate of one out four Texans, who cannot pay for health insurance. The state of Texas risked the funds of the hospitals if they decided to expand the program. If you were in the voter’s shoes, which one would you have decided on: helping the lower income class or save the hospitals from losing all their funds. Do Texans want their taxes higher, so everyone would be treated equally? The answer is no because no one likes raising the taxes to help one income class. Texas is refusing to expand to see if the President’s administration would give the state of Texas a waiver to help keep the uninsured hospitals’ doors open throughout the state. In reality, Texas cares about its fellow Texans, but they have to think about the state’s future. Texas’ reason no to expand the Medicaid under the Federal Affordable Care Act is reasonable decision because Texas is not made out of money and hospitals are not free to run at all. Even though, I oppose of Texas’ decision, the decision made by Texas could help the state in the long run, but right …show more content…
Why I am against the decision? The thousands of families who was affected by the decision has to face the serious consequences for not having health insurance anymore. The families have to decided when an emergency is a real emergency. If someone, who is injured, walks in the emergency room, they could be asked to leave the emergency room or their bill would be thousands of dollars after one visit. Everyone in Texas is nervous about if they are protected by their health insurance company or will their policies be dropped next. The expansion of Medicaid would have created more jobs opportunities across all the parts of Texas. If Texas would have expanded the Medicaid under the Federal Affordable Care Act, the state could have received over four billion dollars of federal Medicaid funds that could have been spent on Texan’s health insurance covered by Medicaid. Everything could have changed for the better. The political implications mean that someone does something that could affect their chances getting back in office after their little stunt. A political implication is when Rick Perry refused to expand the Medicaid program because he wanted to win the primaries in the election. Rick Perry quoted “The real problem is freedom than the Texas’s decision to renew the Medicaid program.” Also he wrote a letter comparing