Highest Uninsurance Rate? Yes it happened again...

While reading through the Texas Tribune, I found an article about how Texas has the highest uninsured rate in the NATION.(again).  This article illustrates how the state of Texas not only has the highest uninsured rate, but also has the most children that are uninsured and the highest rate of poor adults without insurance in the nation.  Even though California has roughly 2 million more children they had 717,000 children who were uninsured compared to a whopping 852,000 in Texas!  If this wasn't a surprise to anyone then how about the fact that Texas also had the highest rate of adults going below 138 percent of the poverty threshold.  It also states how if Texas had decided to expand eligibility under the federal Affordable Care Act, then they could have qualified for Medicaid.  If the state of Texas did expand eligibility, the article states that at least 2 million more could have extended coverage.  Its also worth mentioning that the Medicaid Expansion would save six times less than hospitals and local governments uncompensated care for uninsured adults.  I think this is important because in my opinion the State should have enforced and expanded the eligibility under the Affordable Care Act that way more people could be insured.  I think its also important for people the people of Texas should know how fortunate they are if they are insured and how many people aren't so lucky that they aren't insured.