A state Medicaid program pays caregivers of intellectually and developmentally disabled individuals living in community-based homes. Families, advocates and providers want lawmakers to increase that hourly pay.
Health care
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Health care
State health department blocks transgender Texans from changing sex on birth certificates
The agency quietly rolled out the policy change on its website last week, days after DPS blocked changes to the sex listed on a Texas driver’s license.
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What Texas can learn from Italy’s big bet on tiny community health homes
In Italy, as in Texas, funding hospitals over primary care leaves many feeling “medically homeless.” Italy’s post-COVID plans show another way.
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Health care
What Texas can learn from crisis mental health care in Arizona
Texas officials look to Arizona cities when creating crisis mental health centers.
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2024 Texas Elections
After being denied a medically necessary abortion, Amanda Zurawski will do whatever it takes to beat Donald Trump
Two years after a harrowing pregnancy where she was denied an abortion, the Texan has catapulted to being one of Democrats’ biggest messengers on reproductive rights.
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Health care
UT San Antonio and UT Health San Antonio will merge into one institution
The UT System hopes to combine the two institutions by 2025, making it the third largest public research university in the state.
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Health care
Transgender Texans blocked from changing their sex on their driver’s license
The Texas Department of Public Safety rule change surfaced in an internal email that also asks driver license staff to compile the names of people seeking a gender marker change.
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LGBTQ+ Texans
Queer students look for alternatives after Texas A&M ends transgender health care services
The students saw the move as part of a political environment that has become increasingly hostile against LGBTQ+ people in Texas.
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Texas likely undercounting heat-related deaths
Deaths from heat are notoriously difficult to quantify because of how complex and subjective the process is. It leaves officials with an incomplete picture of who heat kills.
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Criminal Justice
When Texas jail standards push inmates to lockups in other states, oversight doesn’t follow
Jaleen Anderson’s mom is on a quest for details about her son’s death in a Louisiana prison that houses hundreds of Harris County inmates awaiting trial.