Texas has already joined the two-dozen other states challenging the constitutionality of federal health care reform before the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, 27 Democratic state lawmakers have signed on to try to defend it.
Health care
In-depth reporting on public health, healthcare policy, hospitals, and wellness issues shaping communities across Texas, from The Texas Tribune.
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Judges: Texas Can Enforce Sonogram Law Now
A panel of federal appellate judges has authorized Texas officials to enforce a controversial abortion sonogram law while its constitutionality is being challenged in court.
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Club for Growth Hits Dewhurst as “Moderate”
The bellwether conservative group is running ads attacking the lieutenant governor, who hopes to succeed Kay Bailey Hutchison in the U.S. Senate.
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Criminal Justice
What Will 2012 Hold for Politics, Policy and Perry?
Texans will close out 2011 with more questions than answers, from the outcomes of redistricting and Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential bid to the effects of lawmakers’ multibillion-dollar budget cuts. Here’s hoping 2012 brings some resolution.
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TribYear: (Some of) Our Best Stories of 2011
In the spirit of TribWeek and TribMonth, we present TribYear. Ten of our best stories of 2011.
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10 Most-Viewed Data Apps of 2011: Salaries, Prisons, Public Schools
As it has since the Trib’s launch in 2009, data continued to reign supreme on the site in 2011. Today, we take a look at the 10 most-visited data apps since Jan. 1.
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Interactive: Mental Health Shortage More Critical in Minority Communities
In Texas, where mental health professionals are already hard to come by, another issue has exacerbated the situation in the state’s growing minority populations: finding treatment providers who understand the communities’ cultural and language differences.
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On the Records: Texas Has Largest Population Growth
The Lone Star State is getting bigger. Texas had the largest population growth of any state between April 2010 and July 2011, according to figures released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Root’s scoop on Rick Perry’s working retirement, Aaronson maps poverty in Texas, Aguilar on a voting rights warning shot from the U.S. Attorney General, Galbraith on the disclosure of chemicals used in fracking operations, Grissom on the drop in executions, Hamilton and M. Smith on UT-Austin President Bill Powers’ rough year, Murphy and Tan and Dehn on the shortage of psychiatrists and Ramshaw on the federal refusal to exclude operators like Planned Parenthood from family planning programs: The best of our best content from December 12 to 16, 2011.
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Move to Managed Care Comes With Strings Attached
The federal government has granted Texas permission to move almost all of its Medicaid patients into managed care in an effort to save money. But as Carrie Feibel of KUHF News reports, hospitals will now have to do more to show how they spend — and prove they deserve — state money.
