Tag: Texas health insurance

Health insurance law reforms still being resisted by Texas Republican leaders

Texas Governor Rick Perry health insurance

The GOP in the Lone Star State have no intention of easily complying with the healthcare reforms. Even though the Affordable Care Act is now safe from appeal, the Republicans in Texas have made it quite clear that the new laws for health insurance will not budge on the decisions that they made prior to the election. Some of the biggest issues in question involve the online marketplace and the expansion of Medicaid. According to the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, “Nothing changes from our perspective.” He doesn’t feel that…

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Texas health insurance company boosts diabetes programs

Julie Campbell
Health Insurance company merger Aetna

Aetna is now selling two programs geared specifically toward tackling the disease in that state. Texas health insurance and the medical system as a whole is in a virtual crisis due to the number of people in its population that have diabetes, and Aetna is hoping to help to overcome that by offering two new programs geared specifically toward this disease. The state has over 1.7 million adults who are living with diabetes at the moment. Research has indicated that this is a whopping 12 percent greater than the national…

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Health insurance statistics for Arizona shows worrisome results

Arizona Health Insurance

Census report shows one in five residents of the state did not have coverage in 2010. Nearly one in every five people in Arizona were without health insurance coverage in 2010, according to a report from the Census Bureau that was recently released. In counties facing greater struggles, that uninsured rate rose to one quarter. The report indicated that the overall rate of uninsured individuals under the age of 65 in Arizona was at 19.3 percent that year. This was slightly worse than the average across the country in 2010,…

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Census report highlights lack of health insurance

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Average Concentration of Uninsured People in America 2009

Report provides further insight into the health insurance problem of some states A recently released report from the U.S. Census Bureau highlighted the shortfalls in health insurance across the country. The report draws attention to where health insurance coverage is scarce and attempts to provide some insight as to why this may be the case. Kansas made insurance news headlines late last month as it was highlighted in the report, but the Census Bureau notes that the state is not the only one suffering from lack of health insurance coverage.…

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91% of Texans to be insured by 2014, thanks to the Affordable Care Act

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The Texas Medicaid Director, Billy Millwee, spoke to the House Public Health and Insurance committees this week regarding the Affordable Care Act. The director has been tracking the trends and effects that the federal health care law has birthed in the state and has come to a promising conclusion. Currently, 74% of the state’s residents have some form of health insurance coverage. Millwee claims that when the Affordable Care Act is fully enacted in 2014, this will jump to 91%. By that time, only 2.3 million Texans will have no…

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