Listen to audio from the 2014 Texas Tribune Festival’s health care track, which included sessions on mental health, the Affordable Care Act, medical education and the women’s health debate.
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TribLive: A Conversation With Henry Cuellar
Full video of my 9/24 TribLive conversation with U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, on the campus of the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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Liveblog: Health Care at The Texas Tribune Festival
We’re liveblogging the sessions from the 2014 Texas Tribune Festival’s Health Care track. The sessions include panels on mental health, the Affordable Care Act, medical education and women’s health.
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Interactive: 2013 Rates of Uninsured Across Texas
Use this interactive, which contains the latest census figures, to compare the rates of uninsured Texans in each of the state’s metropolitan statistical areas. You can also see the rate of Texans living below the poverty level in each of the statistical areas.
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Texas Still Tops List of Highest Uninsured Rates
Texas continues to rank as the state with the highest rate of residents without health insurance, with 22.1 percent of the population lacking coverage, according to early U.S. Census Bureau figures released Tuesday.
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In Health Care, Some Organizers Find an Issue to Spur Hispanic Voters
In three of Texas’ most populous counties, organizers are working to use Hispanic support of affordable health care to spur a movement they think could change the state’s electoral tide. Republicans suggest the issue ranks far behind unemployment and the economy — areas where they say their policies have the market cornered.
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Texas Hospitals Say They’ve Lost Insured Patients to Urgent Care
The increasing number of urgent care centers in Texas is proving problematic for hospitals, which say they are competing with the clinics for the same pool of insured Texans at a time when they are also getting less money to cover the cost of treating uninsured patients.
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Van de Putte Calls for Expanded Medicaid Coverage
Hoping to overcome Republican opposition to expanding Medicaid, Democratic state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte said Friday she would seek a Texas-specific plan to cover poor, uninsured adults if elected lieutenant governor in November.
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Glitches Threaten ACA Coverage for Immigrants
Immigrants who purchased health insurance through the federal marketplace could lose their coverage next month if they cannot verify their citizenship records.
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TribLive: Health Care — What’s Next?
At our 8/18 TribLive conversation in Richardson, I talked with state Reps. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, and John Zerwas, R-Simonton, about health care and the 84th Legislature.
