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Texas joins growing list of states being rejected by feds for relief from Medical Loss Ratios - ratios requiring companies to spend 80 percent of premiums on health care.
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Texas joins growing list of states asking for delay in implementing medical loss ratio provision of Affordable Health Care Act.
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A 1% cut to Medicaid reimbursement that is scheduled to take effect September 1, 2010 has doctors in Texas considering dropping Medicaid patients or severely limiting those they serve, according to a report by The Dallas Morning News. The cuts are the first in a series expected to take place over the next two years to help cover an expected $18 billion revenue shortfall.
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Houston Tracy was not even alive for one week when he had life-saving open heart surgery for a rare birth defect called d-transposition of the great arteries on March 19th. On March 24th, the Tracy family learned that their son would not be covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas health insurance because of the “pre-existing condition”. It turns out, the term pre-existing condition can apply the moment someone is born.
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The health insurance crisis is hitting every nook and cranny of the United States from Indiana to California and now Texas. Health insurance premiums are skyrocketing causing many middle-income Texans to simply forgo health insurance coverage at all because they don't find it any affordable.
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El Paso residents, who are without health insurance coverage, may be risking health by buying medicines and seeking health treatment across the Texas-Mexico border in Ciudad Juarez.
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Health insurance study shows that Texas has the highest rates of uninsured. Hispanics in Texas are less likely to be covered than blacks and whites. In other words health insurance is less affordable for Hispanics.
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One in four people can't find affordable health insurance and lead the nation as the most uninsured people of the United States. The state government needs to do more to make health insurance affordable for Texas residents.
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The number of Texas physicians willing to take on Medicare insurance patients is declining, according to the Texas Medical Association, and even fewer doctors are expected to do so in the future.
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CMS official Dianne Heffron questioned whether Texas plan to overhaul Medicaid by providing subsidized health coverage to 2.1 million uninsured residents would move quickly enough and be broad enough to justify relaxing federal rules.
