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The Status Quo Reportt includes state-by-state data on health-care cost and including the increasein premiums, as well as the percentage of state residents without insurance and overall quality The report is part the Obamz Administration's push to pass health-care reformj legislation. About 12 million Texans get health insurance onthe job, and the averagde family premium runs about $13,525t annually. According to the report, 17 percent of middle-income Texaz families spend more than 10 percent of their incomedon healthcare.
About 20 percent of people in Texas report not visiting a doctor due to high Texas businesses and families shoulder a hidden health tax ofroughlu $1,800 per year on premiumz as a direct result of subsidizinf the costs of the uninsured. 25 percent of people in Texaws are uninsured and 75 percent of them are in familieas with at leastone full-time worker. The percent of Texansz with employer coverageis declining: from 57 to 50 percent betweenb 2000 and 2007. At a pressz conference Monday morning to announce his choicedfor U.S. Surgeon General, Obama reiterated his administration'sz commitment to passing healthcare reform legislation saying the problem is too great to alloe it togo on.
On a related Obama has chosen Dr. Regina an Alabama physician and graduate of the University of Alabamasat Birmingham's school of for surgeon general. He said Benjamin is uniquelty qualified for the position and is the right persohn to leadthe nation'sx healthcare system at a critica time of change.