We Qualify? Really?

The new health care law was a win win for children and adults but a lost to insurance plans. The new law requires for all states to insure dependents under their parent’s employment insurance,Medicaid or CHIP until age 26. I was happy to hear the bill had passed because I have an 18 month daughter; she currently is under Medicaid but also qualifies for a private insurance. I had so much trouble when my daughter was 6 months because the insurance would not cover her due to the therapy she needed, so I then had to apply for Medicaid and getting her approved for the needed therapy. My daughter is now starting on speech therapy and I was so glad to hear that she qualified without problems and happy to hear that the bill covers dependents incase my daughter needs therapy at an older age.

The bill will help families that are in situations similar or worst than my daughters. Now allot more children will be insured and continue to be insured until they are able to be financially responsible for their medical coverage. The problem the insurance companies have it is that with more dependents insured the more bill statements they will be subjected to pay. Although the focus or purpose of this bill is to insure all the uninsured; legislatures are hoping insurance companies will start providing preventive care instead of focusing on the high cost of maintaining dependents healthy.

I guess for most was a huge surprise to hear that our legislatures have finally agreed on a subject. I honestly hope Texas continues in a good path and passes laws that benefit instead setting back Texans. As whole, Texas is doing much better in meting the needs of their residents and their take on this bill for me requires a thumps up.

Opinion on Our Long Time Governor

The Article is in The BurkaBlog, it was written by Paul Burka, and it comments how Rick Perry may be uncomfortable of a debate with a Libertarian, Kathie Glass, instead of the Democrat Bill White. He goes on to say the issues that Perry is mostly trembling, like Border Security and Eminent Domain.

I really liked how he puts out the real facts of what Perry is weak or afraid to take action on, and who is one of the few people that is able to give Perry a real race. I totally agree with him towards picking on Perry but I really think he could have gone deeper on why he thinks that Perry refused to take part in the debate and not only giving big examples.   He also could have given Glass more points on being the challenger and explaining her views against Perry’s  and put a bit of spice to the blog.

The one thing that I like is Burka being able to comment in favor of the Libertarian instead of the two major parties. The fact that he is not afraid to give his opinion and too speak of difficult aspects like Politics puts out some of his views.

An Opinion...

     The purpose of  The DREAM Act. was to give an opportunity to undocumented immigrant students to obtain conditional permanent residency then legal permanent residency and then being able to apply for United States Citizenship. All this was going to be possible only if the immigrant had entered the United States before the age of 16, had lived in the U.S. for 5 consecutive years, had graduated from a U.S. high school or obtained the GED, the immigrant also needed to be between the ages of 12-35 and have a good moral character. After the immigrant had qualified he/she had to attend college or enroll in the military for a minimum of 2 years and then wait for a period of 6 years for the approval to earn conditional residency.
     The Article was in The Statesman and it was published by Alberta Phillips on September 25, 2010. She was giving her opinion and personal view on The DREAM Act. She basically said it needed to be revised and make the legalization of undocumented students more difficult. The DREAM Act unfortunately did not pass and millions of students were very much disappointed.

     I agree with Mrs. Phillips in that we need to fix the DREAM Act. and find other terms for immigrants to obtain legal residency but disagree with her in making it more difficult. Attending college is not easy to an average citizen now imagine to illegal immigrants that have to work full time to support their family economically with a minimum wage. As it is they rarely have money to spend or save and attending college is expensive. The other and only option was to enlist in the military which I do not agree with. Joining the military should be only done when it comes from the heart and not as one of your two options; soldiers willingly risk their life to protect our life not because they are forced.  I think giving citizenship to those who are at heart Americans and have proof to be great citizens deserve to be count, it is the fair and correct thing to do. At last immigrants are only increasing in the U.S. and will with time be the majority.