Texas Health Insurance

Over 46 million Americans are uninsured with 8 million of those children. In Texas alone, there are 5.5 million uninsured, 1.5 million of whom are children. This is unfortunate as studies show that investment in children’s health insurance has great benefits.
The research shows that uninsured children cost about $15,500 per male child and $11,600 per [...]

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House Bill 103 has been vetoed by Governor Rick Perry as of Friday. The bill would have required universities with 20,000 students or more to bill those students’ private insurance for any care received on campus.
According to Perry, those schools already have that ability but opt out of it for efficiency purposes. He also said [...]

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In 2007, the CDC released national statistics of people lacking insurance. The information came from interviews of more than 100,000 households across the nation. That study showed some unfortunate numbers.
According to the study, 43.6 million Americans, or 14.8%, did not have insurance in 2006. When broken down by state, Texas showed that 23.8% of residents [...]

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Employees of Texas Tech and state workers in the Lubbock area will receive a change to their insurance packages. The changes will take effect September 1 when employers switch insurance carriers to allow employees to use non network providers at a higher out of pocket cost.
While these employees are receiving this change in insurance coverage [...]

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Three free clinics in north Texas have received grants from the Dominion Foundation. The Agape Clinic, Plano Children’s Medical Clinic and Healing Hands Ministries all received $5,000 from the philanthropic foundation.
Unfortunately, $5,000 does not stretch very far in the long run. While these clinics received a slight boost for the moment, they still cannot match [...]

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