Fully Implement the Affordable Care Act, Expand Medicaid for Millions of Texans

Texas taxpayers are sending millions of dollars to the Federal Government via Federal Income Taxes, which the federal government sends back to the states in the form of various programs deemed to be important to the nation and its people. We are leaving hundreds of millions of dollars of Federal support on the table by standing by the dumb anti-Obamacare political stance. This refusal does not save Texans one red cent and in fact costs us millions of Property Tax Dollars to pay for indigent care via the county hospitals.

Texas needs to expand Medicaid as soon as possible to help millions of Texans access routine and chronic health care, and to save Texas property taxpayers from having to foot the bill for the nation’s largest number of uninsured citizens. Refusing to expand Medicaid is not a good idea in any way, it is simply grandstanding. People are literally dying across the state so politicians can slam something the Federal Government is spearheading under a Democrat President. Rural hospitals and clinics are going broke and closing, leaving Texans without access to care, because Texas has not expanded the health insurance program that is available at no cost to Texans above the taxes we are already paying.

In addition, other Federal monies that Texas does receive through various waiver programs are in danger of being lost by holding onto this political red herring. Just do it and call it something else!! You can expand Medicaid and call it some type of TEXAS program. Most people won’t even know the difference because they don’t realize they are using Obamacare under the ACA anyway.