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The Midday Brief: May 26, 2010
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Health care
TribBlog: Health Care Reform Could Cost TX Only $4.5 Billion?
In an ironic twist, states that have done the least to bring low-income residents onto state Medicaid rolls — including Texas — stand to benefit the most from federal health care reform, according to a report released this morning by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
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Higher Education
Gaming the Systems
Should we base the funding of state universities on course completion rather than enrollment? The commissioner of higher education says yes. Some state lawmakers say no — not until we attack the manipulation of the financing formula by the higher ed lobby.
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Demographics
The Nativists Are Restless
Texans narrowly oppose a “pathway to citizenship” for illegal immigrants, strongly favor an end to in-state tuition for non-citizens at state colleges and universities, would support a constitutional “English-only” amendment and overwhelmingly say that businesses should verify the immigration status of their workers, according to the new UT/Texas Tribune poll.
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State Government
Here Comes the Sun
The state Division of Workers’ Compensation has uncovered “tens of millions of dollars in unnecessary medical care” in the last several years, but its commissioner failed to sanction the doctors involved, a key former employee told members of the Sunset Advisory Commission on Tuesday night.
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Workers’ Comp Before Sunset
The stakeholders in the roiling controversy over enforcement problems at the Division of Workers’ Comp testify before state lawmakers on the Sunset Advisory Commission Tuesday night.
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Demographics
TribBlog: U.S. Troops Will Be Sent to the Border … Again
U.S. National Guard troops will soon patrol the United States’ border with Mexico — again.
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Energy
TribBlog: W. is for Wind
Former President George W. Bush appeared in rousing, joke-cracking form in a rare speech this morning the American Wind Energy Association’s conference in Dallas. He praised Texas wind energy, bashed the media, refused to bash his successor and said his grandchildren will be driving electric cars. He also gave away the first line of his forthcoming memoir, a quote from his wife that got him to quit drinking.
