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House Bill 1514, which would add a special label to the health insurance cards of people receiving financial assistance under the Affordable Care Act, tentatively passed the Texas House on Friday afternoon.
After Democrats unsuccessfully sought to derail the bill authored by J. D. Sheffield, R-Gatesville the bill cleared the House with a 90-46 vote. It now heads to the Senate.
Roughly a million Texans with government-subsidized health coverage could see a new label on their health insurance cards, and critics say the designation is akin to a scarlet letter.
But instead of Hester Prynnes infamous A, insurance cards for Texans with coverage under the federal Affordable Care Act would bear the letter S, for subsidy.
https://www.texastribune.org/2015/05/08/lawmakers-consider-health-plan-scarlet-letter-bill/
Coventina
(27,217 posts)Good thing that things in TX are apparently so hunky-dory that their biggest problem is trying to shame the poor.
on edit: clarity
RandySF
(59,532 posts)Coventina
(27,217 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)dsc
(52,172 posts)It is one thing for doctors to know there is a general increase the number of insured thanks to Obama care but quite different to have the numbers pointed out to their billing department each and every time one of them comes in for a service. They might gin up an immense amount of support among doctors for Obama care.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)or better yet, vote.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Equal protection under the law.
This singles out a class or poor people for special scrutiny and thus fails the test of equal protection.