Texas congressmen take aim at Affordable Care Act’s navigators (click here)
The State of Texas is obstructing access to The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The State of Texas is endangering lives, especially those of children.
The legislators in Texas are incompetent.
Who Are the Uninsured in Texas? (click here for Texas Medical Association)
Between 25 to 29.9 percent of the Texas Poor populous is Hispanic. This issue is racial as well as incompetent.
When nearly a third of the Poor in Texas are of one race and the State refuses to act in their best interest, that is bigotry. It just is.
In the graph below from 2007, it is noted Texas has the largest number of impoverished and the second largest percentage.
How is it that a state with so many wealthy oil and gas companies have so many poor? I thought Texas was touting an economy above all others. It would seem to be a lie.
I just find it really odd that Texas has a high poverty rate while it continues to victimize them in so many ways, I would think it would be the opposite and the wealthy of Texas would be working hard at improving those in poverty. Odd. It touts so much religion as the backbone of the morality of the state. Strange. It must be incompetency because nothing else makes sense, unless of course it is greed.
2. Poverty in Texas (click here)
Who Are the Uninsured in Texas? (click here for Texas Medical Association)
According to a summary of national data by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), groups with a high likelihood of lacking health insurance include:
- People in families with income below 200 percent of the poverty level;
- Hispanics;
- Young adults, age 19 to 34;
- People in families in which the adults worked either part-time or only part of the year; or
- Individuals in fair or poor health status who are significantly more likely
- than others to be uninsured for longer periods.
Texas workers are less likely to have employment-based health insurance coverage than those in other states. 60 percent of all companies in the US offer health coverage for their employees. In 2009, Texas ranked 49th in the nation, with only 50 percent of Texans having employment-based health insurance coverage. The Kaiser Family Foundation reports 78 percent of the uninsured have at least one family member who works either full-time or part-time in 2009 to 2010....
Between 25 to 29.9 percent of the Texas Poor populous is Hispanic. This issue is racial as well as incompetent. When nearly a third of the Poor in Texas are of one race and the State refuses to act in their best interest, that is bigotry. It just is.
In the graph below from 2007, it is noted Texas has the largest number of impoverished and the second largest percentage.
How is it that a state with so many wealthy oil and gas companies have so many poor? I thought Texas was touting an economy above all others. It would seem to be a lie.
I just find it really odd that Texas has a high poverty rate while it continues to victimize them in so many ways, I would think it would be the opposite and the wealthy of Texas would be working hard at improving those in poverty. Odd. It touts so much religion as the backbone of the morality of the state. Strange. It must be incompetency because nothing else makes sense, unless of course it is greed.
2. Poverty in Texas (click here)
| 2007 | Mississippi | 22.60% | 2,921,030 | 660,153 |
| Texas | 16.50% | 23,843,432 | 3,934,166 | |
| Louisiana | 16.10% | 4,373,310 | 704,103 | |
| Kentucky | 15.50% | 4,236,308 | 656,628 | |
| North Carolina | 15.50% | 9,041,594 | 1,401,447 | |
| Tennessee | 14.80% | 6,149,116 | 910,069 | |
| Alabama | 14.50% | 4,626,595 | 670,856 | |
| New York | 14.50% | 19,429,316 | 2,817,251 | |
| Arizona | 14.30% | 6,353,421 | 908,539 | |
| South Carolina | 14.10% | 4,404,914 | 621,093 |
