{"id":20,"date":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","slug":"texas-adults-skip-needed-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/texas-adults-skip-needed-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Adults Skip Needed Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/gilberto-2\/adults-avoid-doctor-remotion-videos-fd1a\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Texas shows why adults skip needed care: time off, travel, and fear matter, but experts said cost remained the barrier shaping access most.<br \/>\nA survey helps explain Texas: ~75% of uninsured adults skipped needed care because of cost in the past 12 mo, versus ~37% of insured adults.<br \/>\nCurrent rankings placed Texas second for adults avoiding doctor visits at ~18%, while the state also posted the nation\u2019s lowest health insurance enrollment.<br \/>\nAn expert said many Texans kept coverage but downgraded plans this year; moves from gold to silver or bronze plans had quadrupled.<br \/>\nThat trend pointed to underinsurance in Texas: people kept coverage, but higher copays and deductibles still discouraged doctor visits and weakened access to primary care.<br \/>\nAn expert said wider coverage alone would not fix Texas access problems unless costs came under control, because an insurance card does not guarantee care.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas shows why adults skip needed care: time off, travel, and fear matter, but experts said cost remained the barrier shaping access most. A survey helps explain Texas: ~75% of uninsured adults skipped needed care because of cost in the past 12 mo, versus ~37% of insured adults. Current rankings placed Texas second for adults [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}