According to University Medical Center, one in three El Pasoans do not have health insurance and Thursday's Supreme Court ruling that President Barack Obama's healthcare plan is constitutional would bring those numbers down.

The individual mandate requires every American to be covered by health insurance or pay a fine, or tax.

People with pre-existing conditions will no longer be denied the coverage they need.

Children of insured workers under age 26 will also be able to keep their coverage.

El Paso resident Adam Chacon told KFOX14 that he suffered from a stroke in April and has been struggling to recover. Chacon has been taking speech and physical therapy at University Medical Center but doesn't have health insurance to cover the cost.

"I don't have insurance," Chacon said. "I don't have a job. The stroke messed me up."

But Chacon said that he's worried about the financial burden because for now, he's making payments to UMC and is concerned the health insurance costs will be more than he can take on, especially since the stroke has left him unable to work.

"Now I have to get insurance?" Chacon said. "That's going to be too hard."

Margaret Althoff-Olivas from UMC said this ruling is a positive change for those who desperately need the healthcare coverage and are now left without it. But she points out, this isn't the end of the problem facing our healthcare system.

For one thing, Olivas said the federal government will still need to cover the cost of the added doctors now needed in medical schools.

The number of residents is limited and that cap would need to be increased.

"It is our hope that this legislation by covering more Americans will get them into primary-care settings, make them stay healthy and keep them out of emergency rooms," Olivas said.