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Texas has more new health insurance plan enrollments than any other state

February 9, 2023February 7, 2023 Nordstrom

This year, the state has added 570,000 new enrollments to its Affordable Health Care Plans. Texas now leads all states across the US in people newly covered by health insurance, after having added 570,000 people to its Affordable Health Care Plans. The state made a number of important changes to boost the appeal and affordability of coverage. To help overcome its uninsured problem and bring in almost 570,000 new enrollments for 2023, Texas boosted its subsidy, implemented a new state rate law, and repaired the “family glitch”. The outcome has…

Texas health insurance exchange continues to build enrollees

January 5, 2016January 3, 2016 H. Cutner

In the second last week of December, the number of people who signed up in the state rose by 56,000. Texans have recently started to flock to the Texas health insurance exchange and have been signing up for plans that will allow them to comply with the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, raising the numbers by a massive 56,000 people within the second last week of December alone. The total number of people who have enrolled in the state has reached just short of 1.1 million. These figures were released…

Texas health insurance providers are discontinuing certain policies

October 9, 2015October 7, 2015 Julie Campbell

Many Texans have been receiving letters informing them that their coverage won’t be available next year. All across the state, Texas health insurance customers have been receiving the letters that they don’t want to receive, which have been telling them that their insurers won’t be continuing their policies and that they will need to start shopping for new coverage for next year. The letters have informed them that even though they have made their payments on time, their health plans are canceled. These Texas health insurance policies have been discontinued,…

Perry may repeal healthcare reforms without alternative in state with highest rate of uninsured

August 23, 2011August 23, 2011 Nordstrom

Texas has been named the state with the largest number of residents who do not have health insurance, so they should also be one of the states that could receive the most benefit from the health care reforms made by the Obama administration. However, Governor Rick Perry has halted attempts to lay the foundation for the coverage expansion. That said, one of the solutions that Perry is supporting as an alternative to the overhaul is an untested regional effort that may make individual states responsible for Medicare; a method that…