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Senate Republicans halt health care overhaul as Cruz maintains opposition
WASHINGTON – After days of arm-twisting, Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday essentially conceded that they had not secured the votes to move forward on a massive overhaul of the American health care...
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Ted Cruz proposes amendment with aim to salvage Senate health care plan
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is pushing hard to keep the Senate health care bill's prospects alive, amid a rollercoaster week at the U.S. Capitol. On Tuesday, Senate Republican leaders postponed...
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Texans in Congress head home as Trump muddles health care negotiations
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump threw a curveball at Republicans in Congress on Friday, just as many were trekking home for what could be yet another recess of negative feedback from constituents....
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Back home in Texas, Cruz confronts health care politics
It took approximately 45 minutes in McKinney, a conservative bastion in North Texas. It took about a half hour in Austin, the unapologetically liberal seat of state government.But no matter what, in a...
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Texas Republicans in Congress process health care bill's collapse
WASHINGTON – It took less than 24 hours for the defection of two Senate Republicans to bring about the complete collapse of their party's health care overhaul efforts.The unraveling began Monday...
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Fewer Texans were uninsured in 2016, but state still has largest health...
More Texans are insured now than four years ago — but the state is still home to 4.5 million people without health coverage, the largest share in the country.A new United States Census Bureau report...
View ArticleTexas' uninsured rate, doctor shortage among topics of health care forum
State Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen; state Rep. Oscar Longoria, D-Mission; U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville; and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine Dean John Krouse...
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Texas community health centers fear layoffs, closures without federal funding
Karina Ramirez has been going to community health centers with her family all of her life.It’s affordable, the Nuestra Clinica del Valle is only 15 minutes away from her home in Mercedes, she can go...
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Poll: Texans say legislators need to make health care a priority
Texans think the Legislature needs to step up its efforts to increase health care spending, lower costs and help more people access services, according to a poll released Thursday.Respondents to the...
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Texas has the highest number of uninsured kids in America, report finds
A father holds his child in a public health clinic outside of McAllen, Texas. Callie RichmondFor the first time in a decade, the number of children without health insurance in the United States has...
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Medicaid, opioids and abortion: Health care issues to expect this Texas...
Illustration by John JordanTexas is leading the charge in a federal lawsuit seeking to end the Affordable Care Act, known as “Obamacare,” arguing the law is no longer constitutional after Congress...
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Texans don’t see eye-to-eye on climate, health care or taxes, UT/TT Poll finds
Photo Illustration by Eddie Seal / Emily Albracht for The Texas TribuneIf you’re interested in the partisan divide in Texas, ask voters about climate change. Or health insurance. Or federal income...
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Individual mandate is unconstitutional, federal appellate court rules in...
The decision comes at a perilous political time. Health care has proven the top issue of the Democratic race for president in 2020, and the thumping Republicans suffered in 2018 was largely attributed...
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Analysis: Health care and its discontents loom over Texas Democrats in 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke at a campaign rally Sunday in Austin. Eddie Gaspar/The Texas TribuneDemocratic voters’ focus on health care keeps that issue at center stage in...
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear Texas' challenge to Obamacare
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. REUTERS/Jim YoungThe U.S. Supreme Court will hear a Texas-led challenge to the Affordable Care Act, the justices said Monday, marking the third...
View ArticleHealth expert Peter Hotez warns of a third COVID-19 wave, says a vaccine...
Peter Hotez's appearance is part of the 2020 Texas Tribune Festival, which is taking place throughout September. Vaccine expert Dr. Peter Hotez warned Texas could face another potentially deadly spike...
View ArticleAnalysis: Texas lawmakers are working on an incomplete budget
The Texas Legislature is working on a budget that spends around $250 billion. But it doesn't include billions in federal COVID-19 relief money or account for big changes that could rock the state's...
View ArticlePoint of Order: Mind the gap
In the latest episode of our podcast about the Texas Legislature, Evan Smith talks to Elena Marks, the president and CEO of the Episcopal Health Foundation, about long-shot efforts to expand Medicaid...
View ArticleTexas congressional Democrats propose bill to let local governments expand...
The bill would let counties and cities apply to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for funds that were declined by their states.
View ArticleThe percentage of uninsured Texans in 2022 dropped to the lowest in a decade
Texas is still the state with the highest percentage of uninsured residents, at nearly 17 percent, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau survey released Thursday.
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