The Affordable Care Act: A Case Study

In 2013 the states were given the opportunity to expand on Medicaid under the affordable care act. With this expansion the government would pay a 100 percent for the first three years and reduce down to 90 percent over ten years. Many of the southern states chose not to expand and went on to search for private insurance companies to help cover the cost they would be losing in the future years. These states include Texas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. Two state that are undecided is Tennessee and Indiana. Texas was all for making sure people were insured in health and wellness but they had their own idea of covering them.
Texas has been an independent state for a long time now, our