UniCare Sound part of the long range answer in Texas

Texas’ health care system is extremely ill, and Texas physicians have the prescription for returning the state to both physical and fiscal health. The Texas Medical Association, the largest state medical society in the nation, presented Healthy Vision 2010 Monday to Texas legislators and citizens.

"Texas needs more plans like UniCare Sound" say's John Berkowitz, "The one thing that will get people back into the system is affordability, and UniCare Sound provides that."

“Texas is being short-changed” said TMA President Bohn D. Allen, MD. “Texas physicians and our patients, Texas taxpayers, and Texas businesses aren’t getting what we’re paying for when it comes to vital health care services. It’s time we get our money back or demand restitution.
“We cannot underestimate the stakes. A healthy Texas depends on healthy Texans. A healthy Texas economy depends on a healthy Texas workforce. Healthy Texans depend on a robust health care system – healthy physician practices and hospitals.”

Demographers note Texas is growing older, sicker, poorer, and less well-educated. More Texans than anyone else in the country are uninsured. TMA calls on everyone involved – physicians, hospitals, other health care practitioners, patients, lawmakers, government agencies, and health plans – to take large doses of accountability, effectiveness, and efficiency.

“This will be a long and intensive course of treatment,” Dr. Allen said. “The prognosis is good, but the patient needs extensive rehabilitation.” Elements of TMA’s long-range cure include:
An extensive investment in health care information technology, as President Bush has requested; and A commitment to abandon the cost shifting among health plans and physicians, among employers and employees, among doctors and hospitals, and among taxpayers at various levels. “When we stop passing the limited bucks, we can concentrate on using them more wisely and effectively,” the TMA president said.

UniCare Sound introduced earlier this year has already made a significant dent in the young unisured population in Texas. The plans available at www.unicaresoundplans.com are an affordable answer to health care in Texas.