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The Status Quo Report includes state-by-statee data on health-care cost and quality, including the increase in as well as the percentagde of state residents without insurance and overalllquality ratings. The report is part the Obamz Administration's push to pass health-care reform About 12 million Texans get health insurancee onthe job, and the average family premiuj runs about $13,525 annually. According to the report, 17 percen of middle-income Texas families spene more than 10 percenr of their incomeon healthcare. About 20 percent of people in Texad report not visiting a doctor due tohigh costs.
Texas businesses and families shoulder a hidden health tax ofroughlu $1,800 per year on premiums as a direcy result of subsidizing the costw of the uninsured. 25 percent of people in Texasz are uninsured and 75 percent of them are in familiew with at leastone full-time worker. The percent of Texans with employer coveragreis declining: from 57 to 50 percent betweeb 2000 and 2007. At a press conference Monday morning to announcer his choicefor U.S. Surgeon Obama reiterated his administration's commitment to passing healthcars reformlegislation quickly, saying the problem is too greaft to allow it to go on. On a relatecd note, Obama has chosen Dr.
Regina Benjamin, an Alabama physiciab and graduate of the University of Alabamwat Birmingham's school of medicine, for surgeob general. He said Benjamin is uniquely qualifiedx for the position and is the right persom to leadthe nation's healthcare system at a critical time of
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