Perry’s latest move against Obamacare

            In an editorial from Forth Worth Star Telegram, the article is about Governor Rick Perry's approaches to the Obama care that recently passed on October 1st. In summary, there is a growing rate of uninsured residents in the state of Texas.

            As a result, the Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare); which, is to give all American citizens more rights and protections and expand access to affordable quality health care to everyone.

            However, Governor Perry doesn't approve the new act , and made decisions to make barriers that could interfere with enrolling eligible people in insurance plans under the act. For example, he instructed the Texas Department of Insurance to come up with new rules to regulate the navigators, including requiring them to take an additional 40 hours of training and rigorous testing beyond the federal training. Also, Governor Perry required the navigators to do background checks and take fingerprints, among other things. So, by the time the navigators have gone through the background check and the extensive amount of hours for training. The ACA navigators in Texas would have been at work for weeks helping people get the healthcare coverage they need.

            In this editorial, the authors main audience are for those that are in need to obtain an healthcare coverage, and perhaps for those that seek to get an occupation for helping the people that are in need for health coverage. The creditability he provides  brings the importance of the Obamacare, and shows Governor Perry's philosophy of the act is naïve and selfish. For example, the author states, "A better way to protect the people of Texas would be to make sure more of them are insured. The latest report from Center for Public Policy shows that almost one in four Texans, or 6.1 million people in the state, were uninsured in 2011. Of those, 1.2 million were children."

            In agreement with the author's argument, the only way to make sure that all citizens are completely protected with health care coverage is to act upon immediately, and not try to come up with restrictions upon the act.