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TDI Won't Seek Federal Funds to Prolong Health Program

by Minjae Park
May 18, 2012
10 Comments

The Texas Department of Insurance will not reapply for a federal grant to prolong a program designed to help Texans navigate the health insurance market, agency spokesman John Greeley confirmed on Friday.

The state-run Consumer Health Assistance Program was established in 2010 under federal health reform to help consumers enroll in health coverage and file complaints and appeals against health plans. Texas CHAP staffers have given public service announcements, made field presentations and taken calls on a hotline that helped an estimated 9,000 Texans last year.

In September 2010, Texas was awarded a one-year grant of $2.8 million ...

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Comments (10)

May 18, 2012 @ 4:16 p.m.

Suzy Hagar via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Shame, shame Rick Perry.
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May 18, 2012 @ 4:25 p.m.

Mary Warren via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I guess they don't want to have to deal with someone else making the rules and enforcing them.
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May 18, 2012 @ 4:28 p.m.

Mary Warren via Texas Tribune on Facebook

I'd much rather have the Obama administration help me get insurance/health care than the Perry administration. I want citizen-centered government rather than private industry-centered government.
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May 18, 2012 @ 4:33 p.m.

Randy Case via Texas Tribune on Facebook

Absolutely disgusting.
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May 18, 2012 @ 4:47 p.m.

Samdavis

If Perry could find a way to let one of his cronies profit from the grant he'd reapply for it.
May 18, 2012 @ 5:35 p.m.

Susie Martinez-Dominguez via Texas Tribune on Facebook

VOTE!
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May 18, 2012 @ 6:08 p.m.

Debbie Spencer via Texas Tribune on Facebook

We must get rid of the republican scum who have sold out our state and made us the laughing stock of the nation.
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May 18, 2012 @ 7:43 p.m.

Neil Moyer via Texas Tribune on Facebook

More GOP sabotage of national health care law!
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May 19, 2012 @ 12:31 a.m.

Frances Demps via Texas Tribune on Facebook

This state's so-called leaders are so amazingly backa$$ward sometimes. Please, please vote these morons out of office.
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May 19, 2012 @ 11:20 a.m.

homas

Please change the name of the agency to the Texas Department for the Insurance Industry to more accurately reflect their mission and actions.