Amid angered frenzy in various states about the Affordability Act, President Barrack Obama explained the benefits of the health reforms to the residents of Texas. Addressing a Democratic fundraiser in Austin, Obama spelled out what to reforms will exactly mean to Texans.
Stressing on the advantages he said that the Act will ensure that no American faces medical bankruptcy and that every child has access to preventive care services.
Elaborating further, the President said, “It is cutting taxes for small business owners that cover their employees, by up to 35 percent of the premiums they’re paying for their employees. It’s saying to young people, you can stay on your parent’s health insurance until you’re 26 so that there’s not that gap in coverage just as they’re starting their careers. It’s providing assistance to seniors, so that they can help to deal with that doughnut hole that was created by the prescription drug plan.”
Obama also assured that the reforms will prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to anybody. The President also went on to rebuke the Republicans accusing them of making this to be more of an election issue than thinking about the future generations. There was a special mention for House Republican Leader John Boehner whose ‘big job plan’ involved repelling the federal health reforms.
Texas incidentally has the highest percentage of uninsured individual adults in the country, a figure reported to be around 26.8 % by Gallup- HealthwaysWell-Being Index. Hispanics, who form about 40% of the Texan population, are among the most likely group of American adults who remain uninsured.
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