The Texas Way Issues
Establishing a health insurance model the Texas Way relieves small businesses by ensuring a healthy workforce that reinforces Texas’ thriving economy.
As proposed, the Texas Way Program:
- Connects uninsured Texans with private insurance coverage
choices; - Requires personal responsibility;
- Promotes appropriate utilization of health care services; and
Reduces inefficient health care spending.
- Connects uninsured Texans with private insurance
coverage choices; - Requires personal responsibility;
- Promotes appropriate utilization of health care services; and
- Reduces inefficient health care spending.
By requiring covered individuals to pay for a portion of their care and incentivizing the appropriate utilization of health care services, the Texas Way Program avoids the pitfalls of traditional entitlement programs. The Texas Way Program is the fiscally responsible approach to reducing the number of uninsured without adding to the state’s Medicaid rolls.
- Connects uninsured Texans with private market coverage choices;
- Requires personal responsibility;
- Promotes appropriate utilization of health care services; and
- Reduces inefficient health care spending.
- Connects uninsured Texans with private insurance coverage choices;
- Requires personal responsibility;
- Promotes appropriate utilization of health care services; and
- Reduces inefficient health care spending.
Each year, Texas hospitals provide more than $5.5 billion in uncompensated health care services. By connecting more than a million low-wage working Texans with private health insurance, the Texas Way Program can reduce this uncompensated care burden and, as a result, help stabilize the growth in local property taxes and lower the cost of purchasing private health insurance.
