Wow. More than 1 out of 4 Texans
have no health insurance. Other people are paying for the health care they get.
You're one of them.
According to Gallup, for the fifth
straight year Texas has the highest uninsured rate of all 50 states. Almost 29%
of Texas residents have no health care coverage.
Massachusetts is the best-insured
state, only 4.5% of Bay State residents don't have any coverage. Among all
states, the average is 16.9%.
So, who is paying for the health
care that all these uninsured Texans are getting every day?
OK, maybe it's not the best health
care in every case, but this is America, the people who get banged up in the
three-car pileup on I-10 are going to get medical treatment even if they don't
have an insurance card.
Some of these uninsured folks in the Lone Star State are
going to break an arm today, and they're going to get emergency room treatment.
Some of the ladies are going to
have a baby in a hospital today, and get a doctor's attention.
Some of them are poor and old and
unable to care for themselves, and they're in some version of the Shady Rest
County Home, getting some kind of health care today even if they're not getting
many visitors.
Who's paying for all
this?
Somebody is paying for it.
If you pay federal taxes, you're
helping to pay for it.
Maybe your statistic was including illegal aliens which probably makes up 25%of Texas population. While we're fixing health care lets get the illegals sent home!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous neglected to mention that most of the grown-up illegal aliens are working at jobs that comfortable Americans won't touch. Sending the illegals home isn't the answer --- making them full-fledged, fully tax-paying citizens makes sense to me.
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