Speaker Phelan: This set of bills will stabilize Texas’ health care safety net
Texas | April 20, 2021
Last legislative session, Texas made significant strides to our health care system, including eliminating surprise billing, increasing women’s health funding, and securing landmark waivers from the federal government to stabilize our health care safety net.
My House colleagues and I are committed to building upon those successes this session by introducing Healthy Families, Healthy Texas, a bipartisan legislative package to ensure health care in the Lone Star State is accessible and affordable for all 29 million Texans. Healthy Families, Healthy Texas aims to improve the health of Texas mothers, create greater access to affordable health care coverage, and develop alternatives to the federal health insurance exchange. This is a bipartisan effort to better coordinate the continuum of care for Texans across the state.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Texans have relied on technology more than ever, using telemedicine and telehealth to access medical care. House Bill 4 by Rep. Four Price, R-Amarillo, would codify the state’s ability to reimburse medical providers for these innovative services in order to incentivize more doctors to provide them, and in turn, provide greater and convenient access to care for Texas patients…
(Excerpts from The Dallas Morning News)