Loss of super majority in the Senate Supreme Court challenge Presidential election

Exchanges: Who will run them? Will they open on time? Individual mandate: Will it work? Employer mandate: Will they hang in there? Medicaid expansion: How many states opt out? Lawsuits: contraception, employer mandate, subsidies

It became health “insurance” reform What it does not do: Address the problems of cost and access (Price x Units = Costs)

What we’re up against

State’s reluctance to expand Medicaid Low-tax, low-service political culture: 47 th in tax expenditures per capita Budgetary pressures

Uninsured rate of 23.7% cut in half 10% in rural counties; 11% in urban counties; 9.5% in suburban counties If Medicaid is not expanded, uninsured rate would be cut by one-quarter

Fact: Law was shaped and largely paid for by the health-care industry Prediction: Health-care lobbyists won’t let the law die

Feds to the states States to hospital districts (especially on ACA Insurance companies (and providers) to employers Employers to employees

High-deductible health plans Accountable care

Overuse of technology Market power High prices

Proton therapy: Average $63,511 Radiation therapy: Average $36,808

It’s the prices

Fewer businesses offer health insurance High poverty: 1 out of 3 counties has at least 20% below the federal poverty line

25% of Texans have unmet medical needs, which leads the nation

Health Care Cost Growth Affects Living Standards Family of four with employer coverage—income increased from $76,000-$99,000 ( ) Health care spending costs consumed almost all Premiums $490-$1,115/mo. Out of pockets $135-$235/mo. If health care costs had increased at rate of inflation, family would have had additional $545/mo. (vs. $95) Even $95 was “artificial”—tax collections insufficient to cover increases in Federal health care spending

1 out of 4 are 60 years or older

Primary care increase, 21%; overall increase, 36%

16,830 primary care physicians in active practice in per 100,000 pop 81:100 K is national average 118 of 254 counties are full HPSAs 26 counties had no primary care physicians in 2009

…until the 82 nd legislature gutted the programs

Texas MDs: 202/100K; U.S. 257/100K Shortages in 36 out of 40 medical specialties

45% of med students leave state 38% of THOSE preferred not to Most who leave do not return $168,000 state investment in each is lost

Hospitals: 8% Medicaid cut in 2011, 2% in 2009 Hospitals: DSH payments going away, but state refuses to expand Medicaid Hospitals: $19 billion in Medicare cuts over the next 10 years; Baylor takes $900 million hit Physicians: 2% cut in Medicaid in 2011 Physicians: SGR is up again in December 2012

$52 billion in federal funding this decade Each $1 generates an additional $2 Will cost Texas hospitals $25 billion Penalties for Texas businesses: $299-$448 million annually Net of $900 million per biennium savings from state-funded programs Expansion = 231,000 new jobs by 2016

Number of insured grows 50%, if Perry relents Waits for new patients could be 90 days

AHRQ: Texas is dead last among the 50 states

The report is “fake and false," and "this federal government... doesn't like Texas to begin with."

Uninsured population, and children specifically Number of executions Amount of carbon dioxide emissions Toxic chemicals released into water Population with food insecurity (2 nd ) Population – and children – below FPL (4 th ) Among U.S. metro areas: 4 of the 5 worst poverty rates; 12 out of 20 worst uninsured rates

Per capita spending on mental health Percent of adults with a high school diploma Percent of non-elderly women with health insurance Worker’s compensation coverage Percent of women getting prenatal care Percent of poor covered by Medicaid (49 th ) Average credit score (49 th ) Percent with employer health insurance (48 th )

2020: 97% of population growth in Texas will be non-white 5 million more residents 50% of public-school enrollment is Hispanic Hispanics will exceed whites by 2020 and exceed 50% by 2040 Hispanic average age: 26. Whites: 40

Nearly half say cost burden is “very serious” 1 out of 3 uninsured; 1 out of 4 forego care Half are on Medicaid or eligible for it Nearly half say care was poorly managed More likely to wait for test results or have access to latest technology Elderly less likely to be on Medicare Undocumented ineligible for public insurance Communication and cultural gaps NPR/Harvard/RWJF, Sick in America, May 2012

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