Friday, November 8, 2013

Gov. Perry leaves a million Texans without health insurance

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columnists/falkenberg/article/Gov-Perry-leaves-a-million-Texans-without-health-4966077.php?cmpid=btfpm

Week 10 Article 1

1.    Gov. Perry leaves a million Texans without health insurance. (2013 Novemebr, 8). The Houston Chronicle. Retrieved from http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columnists/falkenberg/article/Gov-Perry-leaves-a-million-Texans-without-health-4966077.php?cmpid=btfpm
2.    Category of Problem: Health Insurance
3.    Level of Problem: State
4.    Article Concerns: Governor Ricky Perry will not expand Medicade leaving millions of Texans unable to get health insurance.
5.    Importance/affect on families/individuals: This highly affects families/individuals because it leaves people unable to get health insurance which they need in case they get sick or something happens. This also affects the people who have health insurance because they are essentially paying for those people who do not have health insurance when they go to the ER for a visit.

6.    My concerns: I think that Rick Perry is making the wrong decision by not expanding medicade. He is not thinking about the state in which he is governing. He needs to put the people first. Texas already has one of the highest uninsured rates and he is still making it impossible for people to become insured, even president Obama asked him to change the medicade higher so people could be insured. He is being selfish by not putting the people or the state first. This is what is wrong with politics, politicians not putting the people first. 

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