Texans’ top healthcare priorities for the state revolve around making healthcare and prescription drugs more affordable, reducing maternal mortality and increasing access to health insurance coverage, finds a new statewide Episcopal Health Foundation/Kaiser Family Foundation survey on Texas health policy issues.
Investment supports EHF’s effort to ensure low-income, at-risk and rural Texans have access to a wide range of affordable health services.
More than 1.1 million Texans enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance for 2018 despite ongoing uncertainty, numerous Congressional efforts to repeal the law, and a drastically shortened enrollment period. That’s just one of the findings of an Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF) analysis of new ACA health insurance enrollment data released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services combined with data from previous ACA enrollment periods.
Researchers examine how more public investment in areas like parks, libraries, and housing may lead to better health outcomes for entire communities
Immigrants living along the Texas Gulf Coast were more likely than their U.S.-born neighbors to suffer employment and income losses as a result of Hurricane Harvey (64% vs. 39%), a new Kaiser Family Foundation/Episcopal Health Foundation analysis finds.
Analysis of latest FEMA data finds roughly half of Golden Triangle residents who applied for housing assistance have been approved
The Texas Community Centered Health Homes (CCHH) Initiative is helping clinics battle a frustrating dilemma: “What good does it do to treat people if we keep sending them back to the conditions that make them sick?”
Analysis & interactive map are part of Episcopal Health Foundation’s ongoing effort to help recovery organizations reach those most in need across Texas.
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