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36,000 retired teachers have left Texas health insurance program

By Julie Chang - American-Statesman Staff

Updated: 10:25 a.m. Thursday, September 06, 2018 |  Posted: 6:37 p.m. Wednesday, September 05, 2018

[caption id="attachment_1725" align="alignright" width="750"]State Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, listens to Brian Guthrie, executive director of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, answer a question during a hearing of a House Approprations Subcommittee on Wednesday. In 2018, about 36,000 retired Texas teachers and their dependents opted out of the state health insurance program run by the system after increases to premiums and deductibles. RALPH BARRERA / AMERICAN-STATESMAN State Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, listens to Brian Guthrie, executive d...

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Trump Throws A Life Belt To People Who Buy Their Own Health Insurance

A new Treasury ruling will allow people to buy health insurance that has lower premiums, lower deductibles and broader networks of providers.1st-HHS-Graohic

John C. Goodman Contributor, Aug 6, 2018, 06:00 am

For the first time since the enactment of Obamacare, people will be able to buy insuran...

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Changes in Enrollment in the Individual Health Insurance Market

Ashley Semanskee, Larry Levitt , and Cynthia Cox Published: Jul 31, 2018
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded health insurance coverage in part by prohibiting discrimination against people with pre-existing c...

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Air Ambulances Are Flying More Patients Than Ever, and Leaving Massive Bills Behind

Rising prices, billing disputes, and a quirk in federal law are creating a new health-care headache.

By John Tozzi, 

When three-year-old West Cox’s fever hit 107 degrees, doctors called a helicopter.

Hours earlier, the toddler, who’d been prescrib...

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