A crowd gathered Friday at the Planned Parenthood Health Center in Austin to express concerns over the expected demise of the Women’s Health Program.
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Prescription Drugs Rolled Into Managed Care, Despite Pharmacists’ Fears
Lawmakers have approved carving prescription drugs into Medicaid managed care to save Texas money — an estimated $100 million over the next biennium. But pharmacists worry lower reimbursement rates will drive them under.
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House, Senate Members Working to Reform Medicaid
A joint interim committee is charging ahead in the state’s effort to persuade the federal government to give it more flexibility to run its Medicaid program.
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Republican Leaders Like Women’s Health Program — But Won’t Rescue It
The Legislature’s ranking public health leaders praise the success of the Women’s Health Program. But they won’t let Planned Parenthood participate in order to save the program from extinction.
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Lawmakers Monitoring Health Care Reform’s Effect on Texas
Texas may be challenging federal health care reform in court, but as Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, state lawmakers are still monitoring how the law will affect costs and care in Texas.
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Health Leaders Say They’re Ready for Federal Reforms — If They Must Be
Texas lawmakers met on Monday to address a pressing problem: the possibility the state will really have to implement federal health care reforms.
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Opinions Are Mixed as Managed Health Care Makes Its Way to Valley
There is no consensus on the benefits of managed health care in the Rio Grande Valley, which had been the subject of a moratorium in three Valley counties.
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Video: Birth Control Rally Draws Supporters, Opponents
On Friday, a student-organized rally on the University of Texas at Austin campus applauded reforms intended to increase access to birth control for women. Counterprotesters responded with their own anti-birth control message.
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Video: The Komen-Planned Parenthood Fall Out
The Trib’s Thanh Tan talks to Editor Emily Ramshaw about the ongoing battle over women’s health in Texas.
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Video: Abortion Opponents React to Komen Reversal
Abortion opponents say they’re disappointed by Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision to reverse its policy of prohibiting grants to Planned Parenthood.
