Texas Huge Winner in ACA Ruling

The San Antonio Express News have released an editorial on June 25, 2015 over the Affordable Care Act in Texas. The name of the author was not mentioned but is represented by the Express-News Editorial Board. The author is upset about the State’s resistance to accept the Affordable Care Act aka. Obamacare which tries to provide medical care to everyone. Texas is in opposition towards this movement denying to expand Medicaid and refusing to set up a State marketplace exchange to provide health care and yet ironically still requests subsidies, grants and funding from the federal government to resolve the issue with uninsured. Texas political leaders have constant lingering insecurities about privacy, states’ rights, business stability and government control. However, under Chief Justice John Roberts ruling, the Affordable Care Act is carried out in Texas despite those who disapprove. Texas will soon be forced to participate in a federal system regarding health care providing a large population of Texans with the coverage they desperately need.

In general, the author claims that enforcing the Affordable Care Act is benefitting the millions of Texans without health care and the poor. The author states that Texas is “…the state with the highest percentage of uninsured residence in the nation.” Upon further investigation, this comment appears to stand firm with multiple articles written about Texas’s uninsured rate with about 6.2 million people in Texas living without insurance. But Texas is now under new federal law and many citizens of Texas have claimed this as a victory. To add insult to injury, the author comments that “…the justices in the majority did more for Texans than the state’s own leaders have done when it comes to health coverage” and insists that in order for Texas to move forward in this progress, Texas must be liberated from “…its own leaders, including Gov. Greg Abbott, former Gov. Rick Perry and a goodly portion of the state Legislature, past and present.”

The author of this article remains anonymous and therefore the author’s credentials are skeptical. However, the notion of everyone (or at least the majority of Texans) being able to have and afford health care in Texas is outstanding. But the editorial sounds a bit biased as there is no other perspective for the opposing side of the argument. The supposed “consequences” that may occur are increased taxes to support all medical costs for the uninsured, increased costs of premiums for insurance that were affordable then, losing employer benefits and reduced hours, etc. And plus, the perspectives of the upper class were not included and it remains unclear on how the law affects their lives. Being the person I am (perhaps more liberal) I do agree with the author to some extent... but as to go completely radical and liberate all Texas political leaders from their positions in one sitting is not (I believe) in anyone’s best interest.

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