Finding ways to cut health care costs is all the rage under the Pink Dome — and curbing smoking is a proven way to do it. But budget proposals slash tobacco cessation programs by more than 80 percent.
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Audio: A Conversation About Health Care
For our latest TribLive event, I talked about federal health care reform and the consequences of the state’s budget shortfall on health and human services programs with state Rep. John Zerwas, R-Simonton, Anne Dunkelberg of the Center for Public Policy Priorities and Tom Banning of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians.
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TribLive: A Conversation About Health Care
For our latest TribLive event, I talked about federal health care reform with state Rep. John Zerwas, R-Simonton, Anne Dunkelberg of the Center for Public Policy Priorities and Tom Banning of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians.
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Zerwas on Health Exchange Legislation
At Wednesday’s TribLive conversation about health care, state Rep. John Zerwas, R-Simonton, explained why he’s introduced legislation to implement a crucial part of federal health care reform.
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Zerwas on Abortion and Women’s Health Programs
At Wednesday’s TribLive conversation about health care, state Rep. John Zerwas, R-Simonton, warned against defunding providers of women’s health services as an unintended consequence of defunding abortion providers.
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Zerwas and Zerwas and Dunkelberg on What’s Good and Bad About “Obamacare”
At Wednesday’s TribLive conversation about health care, state Rep. John Zerwas, R-Simonton, and Anne Dunkelberg of the Center for Public Policy Priorities talked about what they like and don’t like about federal health care reform.
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CDC Releases Texas Abortion Stats
There were nearly 81,000 reported abortions in Texas in 2007 — 11 percent of the abortions reported nationally, according to the Centers for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Texas had the 13th-highest rate of women having the procedure that year.
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Guest Column: The Conservative Case for Needle Exchange
While many people believe that needle exchange programs simply facilitate or condone illegal drug use, there is a powerful conservative argument for why they’re good public policy.
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Zerwas: Use Most of Rainy Day Fund or I’ll Get Spanked
At this morning’s TribLive conversation about health care, state Rep. John Zerwas, R-Simonton, took a more aggressive position than most of his fellow Republicans on the subject of whether to tap the Rainy Day Fund and how much should be tapped.
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Liveblog: Reform or Bust?
We liveblogged this morning from the Austin Club, where the subject of today’s TribLive was health care: the costs — and solutions — for Medicaid, payment reform in Texas vs. the federal health overhaul, and what kind of hit Texas’ neediest patients will take.
