Texas Border Health Sucks
May 10, 2010 in Health Policy
A 2009 survey of 353,000 American adults from 187 metro areas asked 13 questions about basic access to health care and healthy lifestyles;
- Satisfaction with community or area
- Area getting better as a place to live
- Clean water
- Medicine
- Safe place to exercise
- Affordable fruits and vegetables
- Feel safe walking alone at night
- Enough money for food
- Enough money for shelter
- Enough money for healthcare
- Visited a dentist recently
- Have a doctor
- Have health insurance
The two largest population centers on the Texas-Mexico boarder (El Paso and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission), ranked within the bottom 10 of the 187 meto areas in the variables listed above while no metro area in Texas ranked in the 10 ten.
Not a surprise since the El Paso and McAllen areas have some of the highest rates of poverty in the nation. It also does not help that Medicare pays reimburses doctors at a lower rate in these areas.
Nonsense!! Texas is physician nirvana since they’ve made it harder for poor people or those without wages to sue. I refuse to believe that there is anything wrong with healthcare in Texas since Texas physicians and their lobbyists promised me that everything would be peachy if they got tort reform. There is no possible way they lied.
Matt, your strawman is as dry as the Texas wind.
I don’t think you know what a strawman is. Perhaps you should review your tort reform “promises” before you commence the bitching. Or more accurately, continue the bitching.