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🚀 Navigating Texas Healthcare: Challenges & Opportunities As I reflect on the current healthcare landscape in our state, I'm struck by the immense forces at play: both challenges that must be tackled and opportunities to be seized. On one side, we have factors limiting access like provider shortages, especially in rural areas, and high costs putting quality care out of reach for too many Texans. We're also grappling with public health crises from maternal mortality to mental health. Yet we simultaneously see powerful counter-forces emerging: Telehealth capabilities are expanding care options 📱, community clinics and mobile health units are innovating to meet people where they are 🚐, and a growing recognition that our zip code shouldn't determine our health prospects 📍. At the core, accessible healthcare is not a luxury - it's a fundamental human right and bedrock for thriving communities. When people can proactively manage their well-being, it unlocks their full potential 🌟. I invite you to share your perspective: What forces, whether obstacles or opportunities, are you seeing impact healthcare access in your part of Texas? What solutions could we prioritize to ensure every Texan can obtain the care they need? By uplifting all voices, we can construct a more equitable and supportive healthcare system across our diverse state. The health of our people and communities depends on it. #HealthcareForAll #TexasInnovation
Managing Director at POZ Impact
5dCHC has created yet another barrier for Texas patients to access HIV treatments recommended by their doctors, who already face obstacles such as affordability. CHC offers two insurance plans under the federally facilitated marketplace, both of which restrict access to antiretroviral HIV treatments. Of the 107 HIV drugs listed in their “Premier” plan, 36 are not covered. In their “Select” plan 54 out of 107 drugs are not covered and the majority of the drugs covered are not widely used in treatment of HIV. Instead of STRs, patients are often given older, less effective medications, which force patients to take multiple tablets, impacting the quality of life for people living with HIV and increasing the ineffectiveness of HIV treatment.