Medicaid - blog 8

     After reading the blog of my colleague - Miguel Ramirez, I agreed to him that Texas needs a reform on care system. It is true that by reforming and expanding the health care, it will cost a lot of money and I liked how he mentioned about budget cuts that might happen to all schools. The Democratic is the party that is all about giving the rights to their people however, when it comes to reforming and trying to pass the legislation; there will be money involved and as we know that our country is in debt. As I search for more information, to those Texans who have struggled to find adequate health care could see improved access which expected to bring $4 billion to local doctors and hospitals over five years. According to the article:  No Republican lawmakers have gone on record supporting the Medicaid expansion, which would add an estimated 1.8 million Texans onto the joint state-federal health plan by 2022 and the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health care think tank, estimates the expansion would cost Texas $5.7 billion between 2013 and 2022 .

   Yes, money is playing a big part but we have to consider whether Obama should or should not pass the legislation with several reasons. To me personally, by expanding Medicaid, the low-income will be insured ( Texas has more than 6.3 million uninsured residents and the highest percentage without health coverage of any state), reduce cost shifting, expansion supports the broader reform, helping to legitimize it and make it function better which is good for Democrats in November. Then on the opposite side if the government decides to expand, things might happen such as expansion is too expensive for Texas and states in general, the increasing in population, basically everything will be increased. Think about it, if it reforms, then will tax and other costs will raise up?.It is good to have Medicaid but is it the best?. I really don't have a decision because I have pros and cons. Therefore, my stand would be undecided and just an opinion of my own.

http://bugleline.blogspot.com/2012/12/7.html

Legal vs Illegal Immigration?

Let's talk about Immigration today. As we all know that America is the land that most immigration want to move to. The main reason why everybody wants to go to US is because there is a much greater chance of getting jobs, opportunities and most importantly is better life. There are many more reasons why immigration wants to move to the America. Firstly, jobs are what most of them desired for. The U.S has so many jobs that open for all people that lived in the land included immigrants. They received the minimum wages that they could save up for many things and still be able to send it over to their home land. Secondly, education is what majority of young immigrants strive for. Many families try to send their kids over to the U.S to get a better education because of the environment and the freedom to explore their curiosity  and by having the America's degree; it would mean alot to them. Regardless of what America could do for them; when there's legal then of course there will be illegal.

The President Obama has failed to pass the Dream Act which allowed illegal immigration who came to U.S trying to work and stay.However, I somewhat bias between their requirement and qualification to be consider as legal immigration over illegal immigration. I mean no matter if they are legal or illegal, as long as their background is clear meaning they might be able to stay and live in the U.S? I myself as a legal immigrant had been working with illegal immigrant; they truly work as hard as they could with under-wage range in order to stay. But to some other illegal immgration, we don't know as if they try to harm the country or be a threat to us all. Much said, there are the good and bad point in the immigration issue that has no stopping point. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration-and-emigration/index.html

Voter ID

As reading the blog of my colleague Emily Velazquez, I agreed with  her that having ID that make you eligible to vote are unnecessary. As we know that Texas is ranking near the bottom of the vote turnout because of the “Real number” that required by States government. Showing ID is part of everyday life but generally, showing ID is a trivial matter for people of all ages, races, genders and incomes, but some small number of people lack current photo ID. I think that by making everyone giving an ID document is to frighten voter in thinking that there's a fraud problem ( voter fraud has always been a concern in American politics) so that they keep people who are more likely to vote Democratic (students, seniors, lower-income folks, minorities) from being able to vote. As well as there are people who used “Dead people” photos as an ID to vote. By checking or showing ID is only to protect eligible voter. Like Emily said that about 21 million people not being able to vote affect a lot of the number of votes that being counted. We had reason why there are some votes don’t want to vote is basically because it is a waste of time and they don’t care about the Government and politics. However, there are some that truly care and wanted to vote but were prevented from not having ID. We are afraid to let those who did not have ID to vote to prevent fraud but at the end we still have many convictions. Then I ask myself will this prevent felons from voting as well? I think the answer is NO.http://velazquez23.blogspot.com/2012/11/are-you-who-you-say-you-are-as-tomorrow.html?showComment=1353475582328#c6327394988359129956

College "Provider"- have to but HOW?

Funding- such an old topic for most university however, it is still a hot subject for most college students that are attending universities and colleges. By going to the school was not a big issue to think so much about before but now, it is a big deal. We have been hearing a lot of promising of providing for education but we do not see any of those promises happened.  I mean we all have question is “whether the state is doing enough, and whether doing enough — whatever that entails — necessarily requires more money” but guess what, we could never got the answers. I truly don’t understand why the legislators try to decide how much taxpayer should pay in order for universities and colleges going when those set their own tuition rates. 

Think about the students, if the state does not “provide” money to the schools when as much as they need then school will end up raising the tuition. Some universities asked for providing money straight toward to the athlete and what will happen to those students who needed the money for their academic? As UT Austin rates of tuition in the past compared to the present has shown such a big different. Think and imagine how much did the school received from just “in-state students” and how they spent it on other sources. If the cost for in-state students are already at a high rate, then what about the international students? I know studying abroad required money but people worked hard to study in the America in order to find more opportunity, so I think the America Legislator or the “provider” should either find the way to provide money or lower the tuition rate. The Government should do what they promised to and not just saying without doing it.

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-education/higher-education/college-funding-turns-definition-provide/

White House lied to us all ?

The TexasFred blogger posted an article about the Libyan attack “White House told of Libyan attack claim Sept.11” with such a strong opinion about it. The blogger gave his opinion and allowed people to decide whether to vote or not vote for Obama based on the Libyan attack that recently happened.

Fred did a good job of stating that White House, U.N council and Ambassador are all LIARS. Basically, the government claimed that they know nothing about the attack and making excuses to cover up. However, not just Fred but people now are really paying attention no matter what evidences they showed to us all.

He also pointed out believes about several issues that happened while Obama kept telling people to keep believing in him. It is somewhat related to the fight that has been happened in Libya. Mostly, he pretty much summed up how much the White House has lied to the Americans with such a vague evident. He brought up the Youtuber which is a good evident/point because it is considered as Media related to say that now; our world has more and more facilities that could help us getting the REAL information and not FAKE from the President.

Overall, I agreed that he did a good job of addressing the opinion to the article and how much the White House lied to all citizens lies and giving us the option of who to elect as President. However, I think instead of keep saying that the governments are all liars, he should’ve put a sentence or so a reference to his argument about how all are liars and already knew about the situation. In my opinion, I used this sentence as an evident for White House being a liar: “The document could fuel Republican efforts to show that the White House knew it was a terrorist attack”- it is an absolute evident which create a controversy. I believed that everyone had their own choice of choosing which political party to be with as Fred mentioned.http://www.texasfred.net/archives/18674

Religion is alive in public square?

 America is the land of opportunity and freedom, where we have the choice to believe in any religion and practice. Religion is supposed to bring people together and give us something to believe in. I also think that shouldn't "freedom of religion" include freedom from religion for those who want it? As the author argued about where Perry got his information and giving the facts and information of why people should have the right to have religious alive in public square and gathering to publish their own religious thoughts. Every state has its law for all citizens. You don't get to opt-out just because you choose to believe in fairy tales or any religious of your own. The laws governing the nation are those who created and established by local, state and federal legislatures.  To me personally, whoever practice and telling religions how to do something don’t expect anything from the state or local. People with “faith based” could still be treated equal whether they are Republican or Conservative. They would be able to use their religion as long as it’s not organized to impose the power of government or ideologies on others of different religions or no religious beliefs. As to my point of view and opinion, when Perry told the courts, secularists and leftists are trying to keep people of faith from the public arena might mean that one person’s religious freedom is another person’s unwanted religious intrusion as well. No one can deny any one who carries faith and their own beliefs when they try to sacrifice for the common good plan to compromise with opponents for the national good. All said, the author made own opinion and criticize Perry’s quotes with facts and various newspaper that posted the issue and given the gathering place where religious alive in public square legally.http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20120925-editorial-religion-is-alive-in-public-square.ece

Alive and Dead Voters

I found this very interesting article that is related to the voting about a month away, yet another voting rights battle appears headed toward federal court. As we know that there has been a big argument about the dead voters. The citizens received letters and asked to verify whether they are alive or risk removal from voter rolls. Harris and Travis counties have been receiving letters of complaining. As citizen, we want to vote and to make sure that we don’t receive any letter asked to verify between alive or dead. The Local or State should have the responsible to check or at least required ID in order to reduce the amount of letters. This argument has been going on for about a month before the election. To know more about it, check out the link that I posted.http://www.texastribune.org/texas-newspaper/texas-news/brief-top-texas-news-sept-20-2012/