According to the article “Houston turns out for health care reform” by James Thompson from People’s Weekly World Newspaper, 2000 supporters of health care reform had a rally organized by Organizing for America (OFA) at Houston City Hall. Many Houston health insurance policy holders are passionate about seeing change. The rally was endorsed by OFA, [...]
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Texas Health Insurance Pool
The Texas Health Insurance Pool website gives some history and background to what the pool is and how it benefits Texas residents. The Texas Legislature created the Texas Health Insurance Pool to provide Texas health insurance benefits to eligible Texans who are unable to get coverage from commercial insurance companies because of previous or current [...]
Individual Health Insurance In Texas
The article entitled “Health Care Coverage” on texashealthoptions.com says that approximately one in four Texans do not have health insurance. This is a staggering statistic and getting individual health insurance in Texas does not have to be hard. Some of the reasons Texans decide to go without health insurance is because it’s too expensive, they [...]
Dallas Health Insurance and Dallas Hospitals
If you are in the market for Dallas health insurance it’s valuable to know how Dallas hospitals rank. DallasHealthInsurance.org has some information on their rankings. Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, TX, is ranked 15th among the best hospitals in the country for Gynecology. It ranks 36th for treating kidney disease. Children’s Medical Center is 15th [...]
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 [...]
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas on Health Care Reform
BlueCross BlueShield of Texas (BCBSTX) published a memo on their website that covers where they stand on the much talked about health care reform debate going on in Washington. BCBSTX does believe strongly that health care reform is in fact needed and affordable health insurance should be available to all Americans. On the table currently [...]
Uninsured in Texas? You’re Not Alone
According to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau, in the United States in aggregate roughly 17% of the population (under age 65) goes without health insurance coverage. Texas had the highest % of their state residents go uninsured than any other state as 26.3% of Texas residents (under age 65) went without health [...]
UnitedHealthcare’s Health Plan For Spanish Speaking Employees.
UnitedHealthCare has launched a health plan in Texas designed specifically to help enhance the well-being of Spanish speaking Hispanics and their families. The plan called PlanBien, includes culturally relevant information and programs tailored to meet the health care needs of Hispanics such as: 1. Specialized educational materials printed in Spanish. 2. Bilingual photo stories depicting [...]
