Texas Health Insurance:
Texas health insurance plans and information on affordable health insurance in Texas. Recent news on Texas Child Health Insurance, group and small business health insurance. Also Dallas, San Antonio and Houston health insurance news.
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Feb 21st, 2009
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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Oct 11th, 2008
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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Aug 29th, 2008
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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Aug 25th, 2008
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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Aug 25th, 2008
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.
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Aug 15th, 2008
Affirming that "every person deserves access to affordable, quality health care" and noting that area residents are not getting it, the Austin City Council called today for the enactment of a nonprofit, single-payer national health insurance program.
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Apr 18th, 2008
Urgent need to expand Texas long term care workforce to meet the growing demand for care will be severely undermined by the fact Texas' Medicaid rates rank 49th in the nation.
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Apr 9th, 2008
Texas plan to provide health coverage to about 482,000 uninsured parents whose children are enrolled in Medicaid or SCHIP will not begin this fall as planned.
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Dec 10th, 2007
Texas Health and Human Services Commission submitted a plan that would redistribute Medicaid funds for safety-net hospitals to help low-income residents purchase health insurance.
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Nov 29th, 2007
More than 850,000 of Texas' 1.5 million uninsured children are eligible for SCHIP or Medicaid but are not enrolled in the programs.