In final year before Obamacare, TX's uninsured gap hits all-time high

[King]

The national uninsurance rate is 17%.  Massachusetts already has the impending national system in place with 4% uninsured.  If it works just as well, I will be interested to see what the economic effect of 20+ in most of the South to 4% will do to the economy.

[Lief 🗽]

Rick Perry will have to accept the medicaid funding first. Until then it'll stay in the 20s.

[memphis]

Rick Perry will have to accept the medicaid funding first. Until then it'll stay in the 20s.

And even then you have countless undocumented people who are ineligible for Medicaid.

[Likely Voter]

I imagine Rick Perry is proud. He looks at that and goes: "Yeehaw! Don't mess with Texas! We are number one! Go to Taxachusetts you freeloaders we ain't givin you s--t here!"

[old timey villain]

I'll never understand the pride people take in their "independence" from the government despite..

1) They rely on government just as much as the next guy if not more
2) The help they choose to refuse from the government could actually make things better

[7,052,770]

Until the mandate rises to more than the cost of insurance,  people are going to choose to stay uninsured just to defy Obama.

[King]

Then we'll take the extra tax revenue, Harry.

[Indy Texas]

I imagine Rick Perry is proud. He looks at that and goes: "Yeehaw! Don't mess with Texas! We are number one! Go to Taxachusetts you freeloaders we ain't givin you s--t here!"

Every time he says that, he fires two pistols in the air and does a Yosemite Sam-style jig.