Thank God for the Affordable Care Act

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I live in Texas but I don't make *enough* money to qualify for it. I have too much income to qualify for Medicaid and not enough for Obamacare. I would need to make about $5K more a year to qualify for the worst market place insurance in which I would have to pay appropriately a quarter of my below poverty level income in deductibles and premiums before any benefits would kick in. I'm sure glad Obamacare is helping someone because it doesn't seem to be helping the people it should be helping. I guess I'm really no worse off now anyway since I haven't had health insurance in more than a decade anyway.

You can only blame Texas for that. The federal government offered to provide funding to expand Medicaid to low income adults. Since the federal government lost the lawsuit over requiring states to expand Medicaid coverage, states are now allowed to opt out. Texas chose to opt out; that is why you don't qualify for anything. Don't blame Obamacare for forgetting about low income adults; blame Texas for not caring about being the state with the highest percentage of uninsured individuals.