taxes

By Steve Brown

When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in March 2010, its authors had states like Texas in mind.

Texas is unique in that it’s the only state that has the most advanced, but least accessible medical systems in the nation (if not world).

The number of uninsured Texans has overwhelmed our healthcare infrastructure and economics for the last two decades.

The ACA reduces skyrocketing health costs by increasing access to health insurance. By doing so, the uninsured would be able to receive quality preventive care to help them manage and early diagnose chronic illness instead of receiving expensive primary care in emergency rooms. The costs associated with uncompensated care are paid for by local tax payers, employers and the insured. One emergency room visit by an uninsured patient costs $1300. Multiply that by 5 million uninsured Texans, and you’ve just stumbled upon Texas’ Health Care crisis.

All Texans would benefit from health care reform – and that includes Texas businesses.

We asked Americas what they thought of the Romney-Ryan plan.

Paul Ryan es el arquitecto del presupuesto Republicano radical. Es un plan que Mitt Romney respalda.

¿Pero que impacto tendría este presupuesto en nuestro país? Las personas de la tercera edad, las familias de la clase media, y los estudiantes sufrirán. Y todo por pagar por las reducciones de impuestos de los más ricos.

Paul Ryan is the mastermind behind the extreme GOP budget plan. It's a plan Mitt Romney endorses.

But what does that budget mean for America? The GOP budget plan hurts seniors, it hurts middle-class families, and it hurts students. All to pay for tax cuts for those at the top..

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan: back to the failed top-down policies that crashed our economy.

Mitt Romney's creepy hand wants your $2k to pay for tax breaks for his millionaire and billionaire friends. Tell Mitt Romney: Get your hand out of my pocket!

Tough Fight between Mitt Romney and his bigest ideological oponent Mitt Romney From 4 Years Ago!

Overview Video of Mitt Romney's Flip Flops

Mitt Romney on Immigration

Mitt Romney has only released one full year of tax returns. Why hasn't he released more? Is Romney willing to share any new information?

Voice-over: "Seen this ad?" President Obama: "If you got a business, you didn't build that..."

Voice-over: "Wait a minute, Romney deliberately altered the meaning of the President's words. Actually, he was talking about, 'building infrastructure and education, not that individuals don't build their businesses.'"

Mitt Romney is launching a false attack, but it turns out he actually agrees with President Obama.

We asked people their thoughts on Mitt Romney saying he was retired "retroactively" as CEO of Bain Capital from 1999 to 2001.