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Off the Kuff blogger Charles Kuffner discusses the current debates surrounding the new health care and how Texas is being effected by it in his post: More arguing over health care costs. The issue at hand is how much this health care reform is going to sot us Texans. Tom Suehs estimated that it’s going to cost Texans more than $27 billion. That’s more than $20 billion that the expected cost fro all the states combined. That number is outrageously high and much higher than the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate by Henry Waxman of $1.4 billion. Suehs says that Texas has “a higher population of uninsured than most states have total population.”

Kuffner says that it is pretty early to begin to predict the budget when it won’t even begin until another five years from now and it is something that is going to be going for about 15 yrs. Plans can change, there are likely to be changes in how our country is going to be dealing some of the costs ten years down the road or so. Kuffner even argees that’s it’s possible for Medicaid to have been reversed by then.

Kuffner say that the cost is high and Texans are going to have to pay but what we’re paying for is health. This will allow citizens to be healthier and live a longer and better life. It is definitely something worth paying for.

Kuffner’s last agreement about these costs is that this is even thought the states haven’t been the ones paying for these health expenses someone else has been paying. This is just going to give a lot more people coverage and it will be spreading out the expenses and burdens much more equally. This is a good thing and it is much needed according to Kuffner.

Kuffner’s right, there is no way to predict how much it is going to cost right now but is most likely not going to be as much as Suehs is estimating. It is gong to bring coverage to many more people and it is something that is worth the cost. We need to have health care, and we need to take care of that. His reasoning is simple and hard to argue with.

Texans have the right to know what this health care is going to cost them and what it’s going to do for them. This is going to provide better and healthier lives for them and everyone should know and understand what they’re paying.