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. At its regular Thursday meeting, the Council voted to endorse the U.S. National Health Insurance Act, H.R. 676, [...]
In an Aug. 7 letter to Texas Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Albert Hawkins, CMS official Dianne Heffron questioned whether the state’s 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, the Dallas Morning News reports. [...]
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. Only 58 percent of Texas physicians are taking new Medicare cases, and only 38 percent of primary care physicians are doing so, according [...]
Texas is at the top of the heap again – this time we are the most uninsured state, health care-wise, in the country. Oh wait, being without health insurance coverage is not a good thing, is it? One in four people in Texas can’t afford to have health insurance. The U.S. Census Bureau released a [...]
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. The first ever study from U.S. Census Bureau looked at health insurance rates in very details for 2005. Data was [...]
Texas Medicaid Beneficiaries Only 18% of physicians in Austin, Texas, accept all new Medicaid beneficiaries, according to a survey of physicians by the Texas Medical Association, the Austin American-Statesman reports. According to the American-Statesman, %26quot;Austin has become ground zero in what some in the medical community are calling an unfolding Medicaid crisis in Texas.%26quot; Themedical [...]
A new era in health insurance dawned today in Texas, promising affordable individual health insurance for the estimated three million uninsured young, healthy adults in the state. With the launch of the Precedent | Remix individual health insurance products at www.precedent.com, the health insurance industry has moved to an online retail model, just as so [...]
Texas SCHIP Texas’ Health and Human Services Commissionofficials on Thursday announced that the state has sufficient moneyfrom existing federal allotments to continue covering SCHIPbeneficiaries for at least one year, regardless of the fate of federal legislation that would reauthorize and expand the program, the Houston Chroniclereports. HHSC spokesperson Stephanie Goodman said the state also hassufficient [...]
StateChildren’s Health Insurance Program More than850,000 of Texas’1.5 million uninsured children are eligible for SCHIP or Medicaid but are notenrolled in the programs, Texas Health and HumanServices ExecutiveCommissioner Albert Hawkins said Tuesday, the AustinAmerican-Statesman reports. Of those children, 75% qualify for Medicaid coverage and therest qualify for SCHIP. The figures are based on an analysis [...]
The Texas Health and Human Services Commissionlast week submitted a plan to the federal government that wouldredistribute Medicaid funds for safety-net hospitals to help low-incomeresidents purchase health insurance, the Dallas Morning News reports (Garrett, Dallas Morning News,12/5). Commission spokesperson Stephanie Goodman on Thursday said thestate would divert $246 million from hospitals to create the HealthOpportunity [...]
