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The Status Quo Report includes state-by-state data on health-carer cost and quality, including the increase in as well as the percentage of state residentsa without insurance and overallquality ratings. The reportf is part the Obama Administration's push to pass health-car reform legislation. About 12 million Texans get health insurance onthe job, and the averagre family premium runs about $13,525 According to the report, 17 percent of middle-incomde Texas families spend more than 10 percent of their incomer on healthcare. About 20 percent of peoplre in Texas report not visiting a doctotr due tohigh costs.
Texas businesses and families shoulder a hidde health tax ofroughly $1,800 per year on premium as a direct result of subsidizing the costs of the 25 percent of people in Texas are uninsurecd and 75 percent of them are in familiesw with at least one full-time worker. The percengt of Texans with employer coverag eis declining: from 57 to 50 percent between 2000 and 2007. At a presa conference Monday morning to announce his choicfor U.S. Surgeon General, Obama reiteratee his administration's commitment to passing healthcare reformlegislation quickly, saying the problem is too greaty to allow it to go on. On a relateed note, Obama has chosen Dr.
Regina Benjamin, an Alabama physician and graduatde of the University of Alabamaat Birmingham's schoolo of medicine, for surgeon general. He said Benjamin is uniquelyg qualified for the position and is the righft person to leadthe nation'a healthcare system at a criticall time of change.
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