Hank Gilbert's web site press releaseGilbert: Texans Being Failed By Their GovernorSep 16, 2009
TYLER—Hank Gilbert (D-Whitehouse), Democratic candidate for Texas Governor, released the following statement Wednesday morning in response to the report released yesterday by Families USA, a bipartisan consumer watchdog, on health insurance premiums in Texas:
The announcement that health insurance premiums have risen in Texas by almost 100% since 2000 comes as no surprise to Texans who have been constantly burdened by persistently increasing premiums and ever declining coverage. Once again, Governor Perry’s policy of letting the industry regulate itself has failed Texans miserably.
Health insurance has become so expensive in Texas that more than 300,000 households the Census Bureau considers ‘high-income’ households can’t even afford to pay the premiums.
Of course, Texans are used to being failed by their Governor on a consistent basis. It’s why more than 60% of Texans voted for someone else in the 2006 election.
It’s sad that the insurance burden consistently falls on the poor and middle class in this state while they struggle every day just to get by—with no help from Governor Perry or his lobbyist appointees at the Texas Department of Insurance.
This is just one reason I will fight to make the Texas Insurance Commissioner an elected official accountable to the people when I am Governor.
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