Texas Health Insurance Options Limited In Rural Areas
In Texas there are about a dozen different insurance companies participating in the marketplace, selling roughly 100 plans across the state. As the Texas Medical Association points out though, some...
View ArticleRural Texas Ramping Up For Obamacare: Recruiting Young Doctors
In rural Texas, finding a family practice doctor is no easy feat. There are dozens of counties without doctors, and the need for health care is only going to increase as more people buy insurance...
View ArticleRural Hospitals Struggling In Texas
Rural hospitals provide emergency and routine care for millions of people in Texas. But over the past few decades, their doors have been closing. The Affordable Care Act was supposed to help...
View ArticleTexas Telemedicine Taking Off
A shortage of medical specialists, combined with a glut of newly insured patients has put some rural Texas hospitals in a bind. One solution is telemedicine. Think of it as a kind of video conferencing...
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