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Choices and Challenges: How Texas County Uninsured Rates Will Drop Under Health Care Reform

  

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Anne Dunkelberg /(512) 320-0222 x 102

September 19, 2012

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Texas is projected to see the largest percentage gain in insurance coverage of any state under health care reform. With nearly one in four of the 25 million Texans lacking coverage today, any significant gain in coverage will reduce local charity care and uncompensated care costs and tax burdens. A recent model developed by Michael E. Cline, Ph.D., and Steve H. Murdock, Ph.D. of Rice University provides county-level projections to help local officials and residents plan for how increased coverage under the Affordable Care Act could affect their communities.