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June 2: The 2009 Texas Legislature made significant improvements to Texas health care that will benefit consumers as well as health care providers. Read more!

Unaffordable health care coverage hurts every Texan:

One in four Texans lacks health insurance.
1.5 million uninsured are children.
More than two-thirds of the uninsured in Texas come from hard-working families that have at least one gainfully employed family member.
Less than half of private businesses offered health care benefits in 2007.
Between 2000 and 2006, family health insurance premiums for employer-based coverage rose five times faster than median family income.

Take Action
It’s up to all of us – Texas hospitals, business owners, community and civic leaders, and everyday citizens – to urge state lawmakers to make health care a priority now!

Learn about the facts and the solution.
Contact your legislators and urge them to support measures that will make health insurance more affordable and accessible for all!
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According to Texas Government Code 305.027, this material may be considered "legislative advertising." Authorization for its publication is made by John Hawkins, Texas Hospital Association, P.O. Box 679010, Austin, Texas, 78767-9010.