Gov. Greg Abbott and other state officials are largely silent on why they haven’t fulfilled their vow to cut off funds to women’s health programs offered to poor Texas women by Planned Parenthood.
Edgar Walters
Edgar Walters worked at the Tribune from 2013 to 2020, most recently covering health and human services. Before that, he had a political reporting fellowship with the Berliner Zeitung, a daily newspaper in Berlin. He is a graduate of the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked as an editor for The Daily Texan. When not in the newsroom or at the Capitol, he could be found on the volleyball court, standing 6 feet, 7 inches tall.
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Texas Investigators Failed to Check on Thousands of At-Risk Children
New data from Texas’ child welfare agency details a disturbing number of high-priority children whom investigators failed to check up on.
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East Texas Children Lose Therapy Services in Budget Cut Fallout
Lawmakers wanted the state to pay less for children’s therapy services without cutting off access to care, but that balance is proving impossible in some cases.
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Medicaid Cuts to Children’s Therapy Allowed to Proceed
A significant cut to the amount of money Texas pays therapists who treat children with disabilities was finally cleared to take effect when the Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a lawsuit over the budget cut’s legality.
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Texas Budget Writers Hear Concerns Over Medicaid Therapy Cuts
Cuts in the state’s payments to therapy providers who see children with disabilities remain tied up in court, but Texas officials said Thursday they have made about $58 million in cuts from other parts of the health care budget.
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Poorly Written Special Education Law Could Be Costly to School Districts, Paxton Says
The attorney general’s opinion lends credibility to school district officials who have criticized the special-education law for being expensive to comply with.
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Key Texas Lawmakers Show Little Appetite for Medicaid Expansion
Comments by high-ranking Texas Republicans indicate that the state’s long-running tug-of-war with the federal government over Medicaid expansion is unlikely to change course.
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Federal Regulators Take Teladoc’s Side in Medical Board Suit
Teladoc, the Dallas-based company that sued Texas over its telemedicine regulations, has a new ally in the Federal Trade Commission.
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North Texas Hospitals Face $27 Million Penalty in Medicaid Dispute
Hospitals in the Dallas-Fort Worth region were overpaid by $27 million in federal funds to provide health care for the uninsured, according to a new order from the Obama administration, which is threatening to take the money back.
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More New Mothers in Texas are Dying; Experts Can’t Explain Why
Two recent studies have highlighted the increasing rate of maternal deaths in Texas, but researchers say they can’t explain why it’s happening.
