Health & wellness
BY HANNAH NORTON
Health & Wellness Guide
2025
Community Impact ’s annual Health and Wellness edition.
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Welcome to our rst annual Health and Wellness edition. This guide was compiled as a resource for McKinney residents looking to live healthier. This guide features content on full-body wellness, including tness, healthy habits, community wellness and preventative care. The stories feature local wellness trends and guidance from health experts. I hope you enjoy the stories by our team of local journalists.
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Lawmakers seek ‘innovative’ health options as 5M Texans uninsured
Health care costs
68%
Nearly half of Texans have employer- sponsored health insurance.
About 68% of Texas’ 3.2 million small businesses do not o er health coverage for their employees.
federal requirements,” said Blake Hutson, director of public a airs for the Texas Association of Health Plans. Texas has the third most health care mandates in the nation, according to Texans for A ordable Healthcare. One such mandate limits the types of health coverage small businesses can o er. Zooming in A lack of transparency is driving high health insurance costs, senators said during a May 14 hearing of the Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee. Sen. Charles Perry, R Lubbock, said giving people the true costs of medical ser- vices—“the needle, the doctor, the electricity and the bed”—could help lower insurance premiums. “It’s really frustrating to talk about health insur- ance costs when the cost is made up of something
About 5 million Texans, or 16.4% of the state population, did not have health insurance in 2023, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Texas’ uninsured rate was higher than any other state and more than twice the national rate of 7.9% . “Texas leads the nation in a lot of good ways, but this is one of those things we don’t want to be leading the nation in,” said Annie Spilman, execu- tive director of Texans for A ordable Healthcare. The big picture For three years in a row, Texas health insurance premiums have increased by over 5% annually , according to the Texas Association of Health Plans, a trade association representing insurers. “The last several years, we’ve had the Legisla- ture adding a lot more requirements—what we call mandates—to health insurance that go above … the
On average, Texas families pay $7,500 in annual employer-sponsored insurance premiums, while employers pay $15,000 per employee.
SOURCES: TEXICARE, TEXAS 2036 COMMUNITY IMPACT
that re ects no sense of reality,” Perry said. In a Dec. 10 report, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee said lawmakers should look into ways to increase “innovative, alternative” coverage options.
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