Blog 4: Texans winners thanks to Health Care Bill

Contrary to what Rick Perry, Dewhurst and Straus say about how we will be affected by the passing of the health care bill Texas is actually being affected in a good way. Capitol Annex posted a statement saying that due to the passing of the bill one in four Texans currently are without health care insurance and with the adding of the new economic security the bill will bring billions of dollars back to the state of Texas through insurance tax credit each year to those in the middle and lower classes including the poorest citizens. Anne Dunkelburg is quoted as saying "Medicaid expansion to cover working parents of children on Texas Medicaid today will be 100 percent federally funded for three years, with the state getting nine federal dollars for each state dollar from 2020 on...Twice as man now-uninsured Texans will gain coverage by purchasing affordable private insurance through the new exchange will gain Medicaid bringing even more federal dollars to Texas with no state matching dollars required." The statement within itself is like a big speaker up to Perry's face saying "We are for the better so stop knocking it down." The passing of the bill will not only help all Americans uninsured but luckily will also help our own state become more powerful and who doesn't want that? It will take some time to get all the kinks out and get everyone on board but wasn't it like this when Social Security was brought into play? I believe it was and look at where we are at now with it. We accept it, our retired live off of it because it is what we do to protect ourselves financially and with the passing of this bill we are not only protecting ourselves financially but we are also protecting our bodies and our health which is important. Extremely important.