This week, NBC 5 in Dallas/Fort Worth did a two-part investigative story on a Texas family’s repeated trouble with balance billing. Melinda Allen went to the emergency room of a
Despite an improving national economy, 49.8 percent of Texas households are in a persistent state of financial insecurity, according to the 2014 CFED Assets & Opportunity Scorecard released today. The
According to a new report released by the National Women’s Law Center, low-income Texas women without health insurance are less likely to get basic and consistent health and preventive care
New Affordable Care Act enrollment numbers released today show 118,532 Texans have selected a health plan through the online Marketplace from October through the end of December, an impressive increase
Last week, the Texas Department of Insurance released proposed rules on “navigators”—community organizations like the United Way that help uninsured people apply for health insurance. As proposed, the rules could
By Megan Randall Healthcare.gov is working better, faster, and more reliably. Recent reports from the federal government indicate that more than 100,000 Americans, including 14,000 Texans, were able to sign
RiskPoolExtension-Rathgeber11.21.13Earlier this year, the Texas Legislature passed a bill to wind down the Texas Health Insurance Pool. The Texas Health Insurance Pool, or “high risk pool,” was created to provide
Texas has a long, successful history of partnering with informed community-based groups to help people enroll in health coverage like Medicaid, CHIP and Medicare. Navigators authorized under the Affordable Care Act
For the last week or so, there’s been lots of news coverage of people enrolled in the individual insurance market getting discontinuation notices from their health insurance companies. Up until
It seems that bogus comparisons of health insurance premiums before and after the Affordable Care Act (a.ka. Obamacare) keep popping up. Many of these analyses are misleading at best—comparing apples