Video: Transforming Texas Hospitals
Here's full video of our conversation Tuesday on "Transforming Texas Hospitals" at the Texas Medical Center's Innovation Institute in Houston.
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Is Texas Denying Health Coverage to Foster Youth?
The final weeks of 2014 were a stressful time for Jasmine Johnson, then a 20-year-old expectant mother who was moving to Conroe after attending business management school in Brenham. Unbeknownst to...
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Rise Seen in Health Insurance Scammers
It might be a man on his laptop at a Saturday flea market, accepting cash to help people sign up for subsidized health coverage on Healthcare.gov.It might be a sign directing callers to an 800 number...
View ArticleLivestream: Health Care, the Next Five Years
We're livestreaming our conversation on the future of health care in Texas at the Texas A&M Health Science Center in Round Rock.
View ArticleVideo: The Future of Health Care Policy
On 12/2, I talked about the future of health care policy in Texas with state. Rep. Myra Crownover, R-Denton; state Rep. Elliott Naishtat, D-Austin; and Dr. Paul Ogden of the Texas A&M Health...
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Planned Parenthood, Therapy Cuts Topped 2015 Health News
In a year when state lawmakers convened with the goal of cutting taxes and holding the line against federal health reform, Texas' Republican leadership in 2015 also sought to cut funding from Planned...
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More Have Health Insurance, But Texas Lags
The number of Texans with health insurance has increased 20 percent since 2013 under federal health care reform, but Texas’ health insurance gains continue to lag behind the rest of the nation,...
View ArticleVideo: Bending the Health Care Cost Curve
Our 1/28 conversation on bending the health care cost curve with Sue Bornstein of the Texas Medical Home Initiative, state Reps. Nicole Collier and Stephanie Klick, and Daniel Varga of Texas Health...
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For Cruz, 2013 Shutdown Was a Defining Moment
In 2013, freshman U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said he had a plan to do something that seemed impossible. He could force President Obama to strip the funding from the landmark health care law that had...
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Supreme Court Weighs Religious Freedom in Birth Control Case
In another major case concerning Texas women’s reproductive care, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider if the right to religious freedom is broad enough to completely exempt nonprofits...
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UnitedHealthcare Drops Obamacare Plans in Texas
UnitedHealthcare, a major health insurer, will no longer sell insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace in Texas next year, according to a letter filed with state regulators.Texas is one of...
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Texas Asks Feds for Short-Term Medicaid Funds
State health officials confirmed Tuesday they have asked the Obama administration to keep a 15-month lifeline of federal Medicaid money flowing into Texas to help hospitals treat uninsured...
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Texas, Feds Agree to Renew Short-Term Medicaid Funds
*Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout. The Obama administration has agreed to temporarily keep some federal Medicaid money flowing into Texas to help hospitals treat uninsured...
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Supreme Court Sends Birth Control Case Back to Lower Courts
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sent back to lower courts a case that pits religious groups against the Obama administration over a requirement that some employers provide birth control benefits to...
View ArticleDo We Have Enough Doctors? (Video)
Full video of our 5/19 conversation with Rice University's Vivian Ho, Med2You's Thomas Kim, Jonathan Macclements of the Dell Medical School and Elena Marks of the Episcopal Health Foundation.
View ArticleTribLive: A Conversation With Nichols and Clardy
Full video of my 10/23 TribLive conversation with state Rep. Travis Clardy, R-Nacogdoches, and state Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville, on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University.
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Battles Near and Far Over Medicaid and More
Gov. Rick Perry has championed private-market health care solutions and criticized public programs like Medicaid for being inefficient. Alexa Ura and Edgar Walters write about that and other notable...
View ArticleVideo: New House Members on the Health Care
At our 1/14 conversation, new state Reps. Celia Israel, D-Austin, Linda Koop, R-Dallas, and Matt Rinaldi, R-Irving, talked about what the Lege is likely to do on health care.
View ArticleFinding a Texas Way to Cover the Uninsured
Texas hospitals want state lawmakers to figure out a way for the state to draw down billions in federal Affordable Care Act dollars to cover the uninsured and alleviate the burden on local taxpayers....
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Carson: Don't Talk ACA Repeal Without Alternative Plan
Speaking in Austin on Thursday, potential GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson told a crowd of health care executives that it was a “mistake to talk about repealing” the Affordable Care Act without...
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