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Why does Texas have the most uninsured in the nation and Mass. the least?
Started by Belinda Hicks- Baumgartner
According the gallup poll my question is this: Why are there more uninsured people in Texas than all of the rest of the nation and what would Abbott do about it? He doesn’t offer a real solution. Repealing ‘Obamacare’ is not the answer, it’s part of the problem. Every politician has the same opportunity to make the existing law stronger and the President of the USA has welcomed such over and over. The state of Massachusetts has the fewest number of uninsured because of RomneyCare. Why are Republicans opposed to people being insured? Millions have waited, those who have pre-existing conditions, to be able to have affordable healthcare. Why would anyone want to take that away?
PRINCETON, NJ — Texas continues to be the state with the highest percentage of residents health insurance. At 27.6%, its rate is more than four percentage points higher than the next highest state, Mississippi. This is the largest gap Gallup has measured between the first and second state since it began tracking health insurance in 2008.
Massachusetts (ROMNEYCARE) remains the state with the lowest percentage of uninsured, at 4.9%. Vermont, Hawaii, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Wisconsin also have uninsured rates below 10%.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/153053/texas-widens-gap-states-percentage-uninsured.aspx
You will need to login to join the discussion.2RepliesT.E. Sumner, 9 years ago
Why is having insurance the true measure of health?
You wouldn’t measure satisfaction of having a home by whether they have insurance on their belongings or appliances – so why measure satisfaction with health and availability of healthcare services with having a monthly insurance premium to pay?We need to analyze the state of health in the US according to objective standards, not some weird measure of having insurance.
Those of us who have been hit by an uninsured driver in Texas understand that it’s not whether the other driver has insurance or not, but whether they pay us to fix our car they damaged. With millions of uninsured motorists driving around here, you’ll discover the truth of this.
So when my neighbor goes to minute clinic or I go to my regular private practice doctor or when a homeless person shows up at Parkland, if we all get treated and somehow manage to pay for it or get it paid for, why does it matter if we don’t all pay into some socialist trough that bureaucrats, insurers and doctors all eat from?
Charles Stelding, 9 years ago
T. E. Sumner, it matters because when the uninsured show up at Parkland or any hospital, we who are insured pay for it. The hospitals have to recover their costs, so they must raise the compensation costs which they report to the insurance companies. This makes our insurance rates go up. If everyone were insured and everyone is paying into the system, insurance rates will stop going up so quickly. In other words, we who are insured are stuck with the medical bill of those who don’t have insurance.
