While health coverage is shaping up as one of the major issues of this presidential campaign, no candidate, Democrat or Republican, has proposed a plan that would address all of Texas' concerns. Democrats' stump speeches talk of covering all Americans but so far have avoided the politically explosive issue of whether to treat the 12 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S.
Along with such immigrants, Texas also has the second-highest number of uninsured residents – and some of the nation's highest rates of pre-existing chronic illnesses. Those illnesses could create problems if Republican candidates' plans to encourage more reliance on individual insurance policies are enacted because those people couldn't find insurance.
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