After hours of emotional debate Tuesday evening, the Senate approved omnibus legislation to increase abortion restrictions in Texas.
Becca Aaronson
Becca Aaronson was the first product manager at the Tribune, where she worked from 2010 to 2018. As product manager, Becca managed the Tribune's website redesign, coordinates cross-departmental projects and conducted user research to improve reader experience. She previously worked on the Tribune's data visuals team as a developer and project manager, contributing to several award-winning investigative projects. She covered health care from 2012 to 2014, making waves with her coverage of women's health and the Wendy Davis abortion filibuster.
She has a bachelor’s degree in cultural theory from Scripps College in Claremont, Calif.
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Pharmacists Push Transparency in Medicaid Pricing
Pharmacists squeezed between the costs of drugs and the sometimes lower-than-cost reimbursements from Medicaid are looking forward to changes in managed care that will let them see behind the reimbursements and to challenge them.
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Lack of Local Revenue Limits Experimental Health Care Projects
The federal government has approved 1,100 experimental projects that could transform health care delivery to the state’s poor and uninsured. But the plan has a big catch: Local health care entities have to pony up to get the federal dollars.
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Interactive: Financing Projects to Transform Health Care in Texas
Texas plans to launch 1,100 experimental projects using a transformational Medicaid waiver. The goal: to change the way health care is delivered to the state’s poor and uninsured. This interactive shows how $3.2 billion for those projects will be spent.
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Senate Panel to Consider Omnibus Abortion Bill
A panel of state senators will convene on Thursday to respond to Gov. Rick Perry’s call to add legislation related to abortion procedures, providers and facilities to the special session.
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Caucus Plants Seeds for Farm-to-Table Movement
The bipartisan “farm-to-table” caucus landed a couple of key victories in its first legislative session, laying the groundwork for its effort to help local agricultural businesses crop up across Texas.
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Dewhurst Calls for Conservative Priorities in Special Session
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is urging Gov. Rick Perry to include a variety of conservative issues, such as the “fetal pain” and campus-carry measures, in the special session that Perry announced Monday.
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Bidness As Usual
Interactive: Track Public Education Donors
Whether they have a longstanding interest or are branching into new territory, some of the state’s top political donors advocate for education issues. Use our interactive to track contributions to lawmakers who make decisions affecting Texas schools.
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Amendment Targeting Medicaid Expansion Unlikely to Stick
The House on Thursday knocked down a nonbinding motion to instruct conferees to keep an “anti-Medicaid expansion” amendment when they meet with Senate members to work out the final language of Senate Bill 7.
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Health Care Hecklers Meet With Perry
UPDATED: Gov. Rick Perry met with three health care activists who helped organize a protest of his speech before Austin business leaders Wednesday. Both sides said the meeting was cordial, though there were no breakthroughs.
