The Healthy Texas Initiative is restoring affordable, high-quality healthcare with patient control and choice, bypassing entrenched monopolies. By increasing price transparency, allowing access to catastrophic coverage options, and empowering informed health-focused choices, we prioritize care over coverage and competition over consolidation.
TPPF’s Legislative Action Agenda for Healthcare includes:
Transparent Healthcare: Create transparent choices for patients and healthcare professionals to restore trust in medicine. Texas can break free from monopolies, restore individual control over our healthcare, allow catastrophic plans again, expand HSA’s, and ultimately “make your doctor be your doctor again.”
Removing Medication Access Barriers: Direct access to drugs at a fraction of the cost, bypassing monopolistic restrictions, reforming prior authorization and step therapy, and extending right to try.
Patient Health Data Privacy: Pushes for patient ownership and access to health data in Texas, potentially codifying federal ONC/CMS rules.
Make Schools Healthy Again: Improve school food programs and contracting. Add fitness standards to school performance metrics. Improving the health of Texas starts with schools.
Coverage at Conception (Pregnancy as a Qualifying Life Event): Make conception a qualifying life event for health insurance enrollment to ensure prenatal care access and align Texas insurance rules with its pro-life laws.