TEXAS has a higher share of uninsured citizens than any state in America. Until recently Shane, a 38-year-old from Houston, was one of them. “I just couldn’t afford it,” he says. Shane has HIV; his job does not cover him. Because of his illness, insurers would offer him only a costly plan with limited benefits. Such discrimination is now illegal. Since January the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, has required insurers to charge the healthy and the sick the same price. For the first time in 20 years, Shane can afford health cover.
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