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Nearly 5 million Texans are uninsured, the largest percentage of any state, says nonprofit public policy organization Texas 2036. Nearly 5 million Texans are uninsured, the largest percentage of ...
Several maternity services companies that sold fraudulent discount health card plans to pregnant women who didn't have insurance agreed to issue refunds, the Texas State Attorney General announced ...
While the number of uninsured in the U.S. has decreased by 43%, Texas has only decreased by 10%. Texas’ political and policy opposition to the ACA is the reason for this mediocre performance.
Unfortunately, in 2016 only 65% of pregnant women in Texas had access to prenatal care in their first trimester. [35] Women being unaware of their pregnancies, economic hardship due to inability to work during pregnancy, lack of knowledge or access to health services, and difficulty finding transportation are contributing factors to this ...
He has been vocal about the dangers of being pregnant and uninsured, [23] and the need to make American health care more affordable in order to address the maternal mortality crisis. He has described the "animating impulse" of both nonprofits as the need for dignity and not just safety in health care.
From 2013 to 2015, the uninsured rate dropped from 42% to 14% in Arkansas and from 40% to 9% in Kentucky, compared with 39% to 32% in Texas. [ 42 ] A 2016 DHHS study found that states that expanded Medicaid had lower premiums on exchange policies because they had fewer low-income enrollees, whose health, on average, is worse than that of people ...
The Texas Legislature banned abortion care as early as five weeks into pregnancy in September 2021, nearly a year before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — the case that protected a ...
Nationally, every $1.00 invested in helping women avoid unintended pregnancy saved $3.74 in Medicaid expenditures that otherwise would have been needed. [ 7 ] [ 18 ] According to President Obama's FY2012 proposed budget and the OMB, Title X provides grants to a network of over 4,500 clinics that annually serve over 5 million individuals. [ 19 ]