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New EHF poll shows sweeping support for Medicaid expansion in Texas [1]
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Date: 2022-10
Texas’ uninsured rate stays high
The survey confirms that Texas continues to have the highest uninsured rate in the country. The poll finds that 35% of adult Texans under age 65 say they don’t have health insurance. In addition, 7% of Texans said they lost health insurance at some point in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite the state’s sky-high uninsured rate, researchers found that a large majority (73%) of Texans didn’t know the state’s uninsured rate was higher than other states or incorrectly thought it was the same or lower.
Lowering costs and reducing maternal mortality are top health priorities for Texans
Majorities of Texans say top health priorities for the state legislature should be lowering costs of prescription drugs (63%), lowering health care costs (60%), reducing the number of women who die from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth (58%), increasing access to health insurance (57%), and increasing access to hospitals for people living in rural areas (54%).
These findings are part of a series of reports drawing on a 2020 Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF) survey of Texans on their views of health policy and experiences with health care costs. In 2018 and 2019, EHF published similar surveys and reports. Future reports in 2021 will look at the affordability of health care, access to medical care, and experiences of the uninsured in Texas.
Methodology
SSRS conducted the third wave of the Texas Health Policy Survey on behalf of Episcopal Health Foundation from November 30 through December 9, 2020. The goal of this survey was to understand the perspectives and experiences of Texas adults regarding their health care and health care policies in the state, with a comparison to similar studies completed in 2018 and 2019. For the 2020 Texas Health Policy Survey, SSRS interviewed a representative sample of 1,204 Texas adults (age 18 or older), reached via landline (n=296) and cell phone (n=908; including n= 747 who could not be reaching via landline) random digit dialing (RDD). Interviews were conducted by live professional telephone interviewers in English or Spanish based on the respondent’s language preference.
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[1] Url:
https://www.episcopalhealth.org/enews/new-ehf-poll-shows-sweeping-support-for-medicaid-expansion-in-texas/
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