Texas Health Insurance Needs Overhaul
According to the article “Overhauling Healthcare is Too Big For Texas” by Mitchell Schnurman on star-telegram.com, Texas is trying to solve the giant health care issue on its own but slowly realizing they may not be able to do so.
Texas health insurance has many opportunities and Governor Rick Perry is trying to do something about it, but hasn’t figured out the magic bullet just yet. In 2007, he pushed a health care concept to Washington but it didn’t work out. Texas has over 2.1 million low income adults who do not have health insurance. An additional 4 million in Texas are also uninsured and about $12 billion in yearly hospital bills go unpaid.
Unfortunately, health reform will cost Texas tens of billions of dollars if it attempted to cover most of its uninsured residents. Texas is in better shape financially than most other states, but still cannot do it on their own despite prior proposals to attempt this. Funding will have to come from a national level and Texas desperately needs their share of the dollars that will be spent.
