Posts tagged "Insurance"

HHSC: Healthy Texas Women Plus Webinar

The Healthy Texas Women (HTW) program is dedicated to offering women’s health and family planning services at no cost to eligible women in Texas. HTW:

  • Improves access to comprehensive care for eligible women
  • Expands services and eligibility so that more women qualify to receive services
  • Improves connection and coordination with other healthcare programs to deliver more robust, comprehensive, and continual women’s health services

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House Committee on Insurance: HB 2536

Texas Insight was asked to cover the following Bill discussed in the House Committee on Insurance: HB2536, by Oliverson, relating to transparency related to drug costs. ~ LBB Fiscal Note…
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Update on the Affordable Care Act

Administration officials continue to attempt to hobble the Affordable Care Act (ACA), even though neither the Republican party nor Trump officials offer an alternative or replacement. The 1.1 million Texans…
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U.S. Health Coverage and Spending

In 2016, the United States had an estimated population of 318 million individuals. Most of those individuals had private health insurance or received health care services under a federal program (such as Medicare or Medicaid). About 8.6 % of the U.S. population was uninsured (Table 1). Individuals (including those who were uninsured), health insurers, and federal and state governments spent approximately $3. 2 trillion on various types of health consumption expenditures (HCE) in 2016, which accounted for 17.1 % of the nation’s gross domestic product.
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