Obama's health overhaul lags in many states
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here's a reality check for President Barack Obama's health overhaul: Three out of four uninsured Americans live in states that have yet to figure out how to deliver on its promise of affordable medical care.
This is the year that will make or break the health care law. States were supposed to be partners in carrying out the biggest safety net expansion since Medicare and Medicaid, and the White House claims they're making steady progress.
But an analysis by The Associated Press shows that states are moving in fits and starts. Combined with new insurance coverage estimates from the nonpartisan Urban Institute, it reveals a patchwork nation.
Such uneven progress could have real consequences.
If it continues, it will mean disparities and delays from state to state in carrying out an immense expansion of health insurance scheduled in the law for 2014. That could happen even if the Supreme Court upholds Obama's law, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
"There will be something there, but if it doesn't mesh with the state's culture and if the state is not really supporting it, that certainly won't help it succeed," said Urban Institute senior researcher Matthew Buettgens.
The 13 states that have adopted a plan are home to only 1 in 4 of the uninsured. An additional 17 states are making headway, but it's not clear all will succeed. The 20 states lagging behind account for the biggest share of the uninsured, 42 percent.
Among the lagging states are four with arguably the most to gain. Texas, Florida, Georgia and Ohio together would add more than 7 million people to the insurance rolls, according to Urban Institute estimates, reducing the annual burden of charity care by $10.7 billion.
"It's not that we want something for free, but we want something we can afford," said Vicki McCuistion of Driftwood, Texas, who works two part-time jobs and is uninsured. With the nation's highest uninsured rate, her state has made little progress.
State Of Texas Child Health Insurance - News
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Health Insurance in Texas is Needed For Obesity-Related Problems ...
The problem of obesity in the United States has grown to the point where it has received national attention. In 2001, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a call to action to prevent, and decrease overweight and obesity. A year later, Congress mandated that the Institute of Medicine, an action plan to develop to reduce the number of overweight children in the U.S. More recently, the Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention Initiative was launched in 2007 at the National Disease Prevention and Health But to prevent the Institute of Medicine Committee on the progress of obesity in children, the problem is still national.
Texas-have programs on obesity for a decade has focused
in the past ten years, the Paso Del Norte Health Foundation substantial funds for programs for the prevention of obesity has made available. The coordinated approach to child health (CATCH) in El Paso is a health program for evidence of students in elementary and middle schools. Walk El Paso promotes walking as a fun and safe movement and media ads promoting nutrition and physical activity in the region of El Paso.
Foundation fights childhood obesity by combining community partners at all levels to promote healthy weight and a strong body and studies have confirmed the efficacy of this approach. Two studies have confirmed that the program reduced obesity in children in the CATCH elementary school, but the rate of obesity in children in all Texas counties still above the national goal of a targeted health management.
In the U.S., 16.3 percent of children aged two to 19 are overweight; the more resources are needed to implement effective programs at the local and state levels.
El Paso region is characterized by obesity prevention
Efforts to obesity in the region of El Paso, Texas were to prevent, reduce cited as the most effective in Texas to obesity in children. Researchers at the University Of Texas School Of Public Health reported, Austin Regional Campus, a decrease of 13 percent of obesity among school children in fourth through El Paso.