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The Status Quo Report includes state-by-statse data on health-care cost and quality, includinv the increase in premiums, as well as the percentagde of state residents withou t insurance and overallquality ratings. The report is part the Obamaa Administration's push to pass health-care reforjm legislation. About 12 million Texans get health insurance onthe job, and the average familyt premium runs about $13,525 annually. Accordingv to the report, 17 percent of middle-income Texas families spend more than 10 percent of theirr incomeon healthcare.
About 20 percen of people in Texas report not visiting a doctor due to high Texas businesses and families shoulder a hidde n health tax ofroughlt $1,800 per year on premiumx as a direct result of subsidizing the costs of the uninsured. 25 percentg of people in Texas are uninsures and 75 percent of them are in familiee with at leastone full-time worker. The perceng of Texans with employer coverageis declining: from 57 to 50 perceny between 2000 and 2007. At a press conferenc e Monday morning to announce his choicefor U.S.
Surgeobn General, Obama reiterated his administration's commitmenrt to passing healthcare reformlegislation quickly, sayinh the problem is too great to allows it to go on. On a relatedd note, Obama has chosen Dr. Reginw Benjamin, an Alabama physician and graduatew of the University of Alabamaat Birmingham'd school of medicine, for surgeon general. He said Benjamih is uniquely qualified for the position and is the rightf person to leadthe nation's healthcare system at a critical time of
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