Texas: Obamacare is helping many people with Health Care.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/9/1467124/-Study-finds-Obamacare-helping-in-a-state-that-fought-it-hardest-Texas?detail=facebook

Obamacare is not perfect but it is an improvement over no insurance or being told you DO NOT GET INSURANCE because of a Pre-existing Condition.

Despite the best efforts of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and his successor Greg Abbott, Obamacare is helping Texans. Since enrollment in the individual health insurance system began in the fall of 2013, a new study from Episcopal Health Foundation and Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy has found, the number of people reporting problems paying their medical expenses has dropped almost 15 percent.

“The fact that Texans had fewer problems paying their medical bills in 2015 is good news,” said Vivian Ho, the chair in health economics at Rice’s Baker Institute and director of the institute's Center for Health and Biosciences, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. “One reason fewer Texans are having problems paying medical bills is because more Texans now have health insurance. However, one in five Texans still has problems affording health care. And it’s no surprise our data show the uninsured and those with lower incomes continue to struggle paying those bills more than anyone else.”

The report found 30 percent of uninsured Texans reported problems paying their health care costs in 2015, down from 35 percent in 2013. Researchers found just 20 percent of those with health insurance said they had problems paying medical bills last year, down from 23 percent in 2013.