Controlling Teens?!

In Mr. Riojas' blog, The Lone Star Government, he states how the Texas legislature are currently trying to pass a few laws that are aim towards teens. Laws such as when they should be able to drive, buying cigarettes, texting while driving, and tanning are being discussed because at that age they're still developing judgements and prone to danger.
I would definitely agree with everything Mr. Riojas stated. Whether you're 16 or 40 it's never a good reason why you should be texting and driving. If you do get a text just don't look at it until you've reached you're destination. Besides it's even worse when that person is first learning how to drive and trying to text at the same time. I agree that these laws shouldn't just be aimed at teens but they should also be applied toward adults because the rate of them getting into an accident or something is just as high as teens when they're on the phone or texting.
I have to agree with Mr. Riojas that the law prohibiting teens younger than 16 1/2 from tanning is just ridiculous. I mean yeah the legislature probably only looking out for their health, but still if the parents are up for them tanning then let it be.
Finally, some of these are just ridiculous, do they have nothing better to do than just sit there and come up with laws targeted just for teens? Come on, focus on something that's even more important and leave these type of things for the parents to decide. Besides teens already rebel against their parents as it is but if these laws does get pass, they'll just rebel even more and is that what we really want?

Proposals would reduce uninsured in Texas

Texas is most likely the uninsured capital of the United States. On average about 12 percent of children are uninsured nationally, but in Texas alone there are 22 percent of kids who are uninsured, that's about 1.5 million uninsured children in Texas, which is really a lot if you think about it. For more than a decade, Texas has been the highest, or at least almost the highest, percentage of uninsured children and that's not something we as Texans should be real proud of. However, now Texas could shed this image of having the nation's highest percentage of uninsured children; that is if the proposals that were advanced to the state Capital last week become a law. Within this law, one proposal would allow certain families who earn more than the income limit for the Children Health Insurance Program to join. Another would allow families to stay in Medicaid for a full year, rather than having to reapply every six months. CHIP could add about 80,000 children to the program and Medicaid could add 258,000 children to the federal-health insurance program.

Personally there are a whole lot of children out there who are uninsured and there should be something that needs to be done about it. I can definitely relate to this because growing up about half of my childhood I was basically uninsured and that can be a scary time. Sure everything will be all fine now when you're healthy but once you come down with something and need some medical attention, and you're also uninsured that's when things get real tough. There are families out there who doesn't qualify for CHIP or Medicaid, but with this proposal it just might give those families a chance of having their children insured and possibly maybe loosen up the restriction a little for CHIP. So hopefully this proposal does pass the state and becomes a law. Besides why should we punish the families who want their children to have a long healthy life?