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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Get to know Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists
Highly trained, experienced CRNAs are critical providers in Texas’s healthcare system, focused on patient safety and access to safe anesthesia care.
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Texas congressional Democrats propose bill to let local governments expand Medicaid without state consent
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.
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Point 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 in the 2021 legislative session.
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Texas Legislature 2021
Analysis: 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 Medicaid programs.
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Texas lawmakers are considering bad medicine for physicians and patients
Access to timely, expert and consistent medical care is essential — especially for the hundreds of thousands of Texans injured each year in car crashes or industrial accidents.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Health expert Peter Hotez warns of a third COVID-19 wave, says a vaccine likely won’t come for another year
The co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital talked during The Texas Tribune Festival about the hunt for a vaccine and how we can reopen safely.
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear Texas’ challenge to Obamacare
The high court is likely to take up the landmark health law for the third time this fall and issue a decision in 2021.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Analysis: Health care and its discontents loom over Texas Democrats in 2020
Texas Democrats, like Democrats elsewhere, put health care at or near the top of their lists of most important problems. But they have significant disagreements among themselves over what to do about it.
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Individual mandate is unconstitutional, federal appellate court rules in Texas-led Affordable Care Act lawsuit
A panel on the conservative-leaning U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sent the lawsuit back to a district court in Texas to reassess how much of the Affordable Care Act can stand if the individual mandate must fall.