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Texas Hospital Association (THA) Urges Legislature to Dallas, Houston and the rest of the state to grant health insurance measures more affordable and accessible place for the people of Texas. The State took first place in the country, the proportion of uninsured citizens (24 6%).

“Has coverage of the uninsured week”, which is observed nationwide to highlight the importance of access to health care benefits, collected in Texas, where Governor Rick Perry localized the lobbying effort by proclaiming April 23 to 29, 2007 that cover the uninsured week in the Lone Star State.

“Everyone pays the price, if the means of individuals, families and small business have no health insurance,” said the Governor. “Fails to the rising cost of care up to offset a burden on Texas hospitals, other providers of health care and quality of care for each patient. Texas recognizes the urgent need to make Significant health insurance more affordable and accessible measures. ”

Nearly a quarter of Texas residents – about 5 of 5 million men, women and children – are uninsured. In addition, the rate of insured in all major cities higher than the national average for Texas and Texas share uninsured children, more than 25 per cent is also higher than the national average. In 2005, eight in 10 uninsured Texans seniors working families – almost 70 percent of families with one or more full-time employees.

“The hospitals in Texas provide representatives of our people in the battle for health insurance more Texans by the private sector and government-sponsored programs like Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program to work,” said THA President CEO Dan Stultz, MD, FACP, fold. Stultz said: “We know that access to affordable health insurance affects all Texans – because we all pay the price if the Texans do not need them.”
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In addition to working on cuts in Medicaid and CHIP funding to reverse the trend and rate of restoration of provider reimbursement, THA supports a series of private equity to increase the number of Texans’ s health insurance. These measures include:

HB 882 by Rep. Elliott Naishtat / Rep. John Davis (SB 922 by Senator Kirk Watson approve) – These measures create the district or regional programs in health, which has placed a service or health care benefits for employees of small businesses in the participating districts and offer.

HB 1182 by Rep. John Davis – Requires state agencies and school districts to consider whether a provider to provide health care benefits or equivalent health savings benefits to its employees when awarding a contract for goods or services.

SB 1023 by Senator Royce West – restrict the use of money in the Fund of Texas recipients of companies that offer screening.

HB 3321 by Rep. Vicki Truitt – must be registered students to plan a health benefit and provide proof of insurance before enrollment, a public institution of higher education.

HB 3361 by Rep. Garnet Coleman (SB 1681 by Senator Kip Averitt) – requires the provision of care that the unmarried children of any age are covered by their parents or grandparents or health insurance plan if the cost of the premium paid.

When uninsured Texans are sick, they are now often turn to emergency rooms of hospitals because they have no family doctor. Stultz noted that nearly 20 percent of the population, the report health insurance, turning to the emergency room for what is often denied routine care, as against only three percent of those with coverage insurance, according to the National Coalition on Health />
“Unable to provide care, the use of hospital emergency rooms for non-critical precious time and scarce resources, doctors, nurses and other health professionals to work for patients who really need Rescue treatment or intervention for serious diseases. ” Adding that Texas hospitals spent more than $ 10. 1 billion in 2005 to patients who have no health insurance, care, Stultz said, “The cost of uncompensated care strain our physicians and hospitals the ability of quality health care for all patients – regardless of their insurance status. It is also unnecessary burden on local taxpayers, workers and consumers of health care. “

Health experts say that increasing the number of people with health insurance to further improve the quality of care and reduce the losses that lead doctors and hospitals to treat patients without medical insurance. improve care without the limitations of financial resources available to invest in new technology, electronic communication, education and other improvements in patient care and outcomes for all patients would be.