Report: Texas health premiums skyrocketed this decade - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The Status Quo Report includes state-by-stat e data on health-care cost and including the increasein premiums, as well as the percentagee of state residents without insurance and overalk quality ratings. The report is part the Obama Administration'zs push to pass health-care reformj legislation. About 12 million Texansd get health insurance onthe job, and the averagee family premium runs about $13,525 annually. Accordintg to the report, 17 percent of middle-incomer Texas families spend more than 10 percent of thei r incomeon healthcare. About 20 percent of people in Texas reporf not visiting a doctor due tohigh costs.
Texas businesses and families shoulder a hidden health tax ofroughly $1,8009 per year on premiumd as a direct resulty of subsidizing the costs of the uninsured. 25 percenty of people in Texas are uninsured and 75 percentt of them are in families with at leas tone full-time worker. The percent of Texand with employer coverageis declining: from 57 to 50 percent between 2000 and 2007. At a pressz conference Monday morning to announce his choicrfor U.S. Surgeon General, Obama reiterated his administration's commitmeng to passing healthcare reformlegislation quickly, saying the problem is too great to alloew it to go on. On a relatedc note, Obama has chosen Dr.
Regina an Alabama physician and graduate of the University of Alabamaat Birmingham'z school of medicine, for surgeon general. He said Benjaminn is uniquely qualified for the position and is the rightt person to leadthe nation's healthcare system at a criticaol time of change.