Pres. Biden signs executive order to reopen ACA enrollment
By Heather Sullivan
Pres. Biden signs executive order to reopen ACA enrollment
After four million Texans lost their jobs last year, there was a 15% increase in people signing up for Affordable Care Act health coverage, according to the Episcopal Health Foundation. President Biden is now opening another enrollment period, February 15 through May 15, to allow more people to sign up. Nine out of ten Texans who have ACA coverage receive subsidies to help pay for it.
HOUSTON - President Biden signed an executive order today to help many people who lost or can t afford health insurance during the pandemic.
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Dr. Joseph Varon, left, talks with patient LaTanya Robinson inside the Coronavirus Unit at United Memorial Medical Center, Monday, July 6, 2020, in Houston. Cases of COVID-19 are rising in Southern cities like Houston and leaving hospitals at a crisis point.
An estimated 5,000 Texans died from COVID-19 and lost more than $7 billion during the pandemic due to racial and ethnic health disparities, according to a new report.
Researchers found that those disparities resulted in 30% of total deaths at the end of September 2020. The report by the Episcopal Health Foundation looked at the effect of health inequities between Hispanic and Black Texans, compared to white Texans, which also accounted for 24,000 hospitalizations for severe COVID-19.
HOUSTON, Texas George Foreman, the retired two-time heavyweight boxing champion, is coming out swinging against COVID-19 and doubts about the vaccine.
Foreman is teaming up with UTHealth to outline facts about the doses and was vaccinated during a Thursday afternoon event.
The effort comes after a new report from the Episcopal Health Foundation that outlines disparities in health care access in Black and Hispanic communities, according to a statement from UTHealth. The lack of access has contributed to more deaths from the virus and has cost billions of dollars, according to the report. This vaccine is for everyone and I m proud to receive it in the heart of the city with people who make the city work, Foreman said in a statement. Just like I knocked out Joe Frazier, now science is knocking out COVID to become the champion.
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