Obamacare Troubles for Central Texas Refugees

On Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014, KUT.org published an article titled Refugees in Texas Face Hurdles Signing Up for Obamacare Plans. The article explains how Central Texas Refugees are having trouble signing up for the Obamacare Plans. According to the article, many of the refugees do not speak English and are having difficulties going through the many English text web pages on the healthcare.gov website. The article continues to stress that all people, who are in the United States legally, must have health insurance by the end of March 2014 or otherwise pay a tax penalty by next year, 2015.

I believe that this article is worth a read because it affects not only refugees in Central Texas, but also all people in the United States. It shows that the system is somewhat flawed and forgot to consider other factors like refugees coming from countries like Nepal. I think that these refugees should be given more time to be able to understand what they are signing up for, since the English language was not their first language. It’s unfair for them to be penalized with a tax penalty so soon when they just arrived in the United States. One whole month, starting from February and ending in March, is not a lot of time for people to adjust to a whole new culture of life. Hopefully our country's lawmakers will realized this mistake and come up with a suitable solution that will not be too overbearing on these newly relocated people. So the question now is... What will the Texas Government do, to help alleviate these difficulties? Only time will tell...