The Reform And Governmental Statistics On The United States

Since the passage of the ACA, a total of 14.1 million adults have acquired health insurance coverage, however, a distinction must be made; the ACA was created to expand health insurance, not to better health care (Office of The Assistant Secretary For Planning and Evaluation, 2015). Texas being the number one state in all of the U.S. with more than 5 million Texans (19% of the population) uninsured in 2014 (this was a decrease of 700,000 individuals in 2013) would be expected to hold great support in order to lower the high rates of the uninsured (Walters, 2015). In order to understand the impact that the ACA has had on the U.S., but especially in Texas, it is important to look at what state officials say concerning the reform and†¦show more content†¦Medicaid is a system of inflexible mandates, one-size-fits-all requirements, and wasteful, bureaucratic inefficiencies. Expanding it as the PPACA provides would only exacerbate the failure of the current system, and would threa ten even Texas with financial ruin (Perry, 2012). Perry’s strong opposition to the ACA makes it questionable whether the reform is for the benefit of the people or if it benefits the government monetarily. The current Governor of Texas, Greg Abbot, stated his thoughts of the ACA by stating, The Supreme Court abandoned the Constitution to resuscitate a failing healthcare law. Today’s action underscores why it is now more important than ever to ensure we elect a President who will repeal Obamacare and enact real healthcare reforms (Office of The Governor Greg Abbott, 2015). Senator Ted Cruz also expresses his thoughts on Obamacare as being a â€Å"manifest disaster† (Jones, 2015). On a live interview on the Road To The White House on C-Span Senator Cruz states, I think health care reform ought to expand competition, it ought to empower patients and it ought to disempower government bureaucrats from getting in between us and our doctors. I think the best way to do that, 3 concrete ideas. Our number one, allowing people to purchase health insurance across state lines†¦ number two as doctor Ben Carson talked about very effectively, expanding health savings account so