Category: Texas

Mental health parity best first step in reform

Rep. Four Price, R-Amarillo, has been the champion of mental health in Texas, and by filing HB 10 last month, he put action behind his words. If passed, HB 10 would help ease worries about the looming Affordable Care Act repeal and begin a smart strategy to fix the state’s antiquated mental healthcare system.

2/25/2017

… her testimony – surpassing the time limit by several seconds to urge lawmakers to “stop playing with women’s health care as if it’s your own political puppet” – Schwertner hammered his gavel prompting a swift crack that shattered the desk top and …

Judge Rules That Texas Can’t Defund Planned Parenthood

In December of 2016, Texas’s inspector general announced that the state’s Medicaid funds would no longer go toward Planned Parenthood, citing a series of secretly-recorded videos that alleged the health care provider was illegally selling fetal tissue for profit. Though the videos were revealed to have been heavily edited and the House Oversight Committee’s 2015 investigation into Planned Parenthood found no evidence of wrongdoing, anti-choice activists and legislators alike have pointed to them as a reason why the organization should be defunded.

GOP’s Obamacare replacements, Dallas nonprofit sues Texas, surgeon…

Some of the GOP proposals to replace Obamacare would hit middle-class Americans right in the wallet , according to several health care experts, employer groups and even a few Republican lawmakers. At issue is the longstanding tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance, more than $250 billion that Americans who receive insurance from their jobs don’t pay in federal income or payroll taxes annually, according to 2016 figures from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

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The health of Texas women directly impacts the welfare of our state. Healthy women create a positive ripple effect for their families and communities.

ABA Weighs Mandatory Substance Abuse CLE

The American Bar Association is poised to endorse mandatory continuing legal education focused on substance abuse and mental health issues following a study last year that showed lawyers suffer from those problems at a high rate. At the ABA’s midyear meeting next week in Miami, the organization’s House of Delegates will consider a proposed revision of its Model Rule for Minimum Continuing Legal Education.

Putting patients back in control of healthcare

… or Obamacare, this experiment has hurt far more people than it has helped. Out-of-pocket costs are skyrocketing while health care choice, competition, and access are all diminishing rapidly as Obamacare’s health insurance marketplaces near collapse. …

President Bush moved to ICU

… this month that the couple would not attend Donald Trump’s inauguration because of the former president’s age and health. “My doctor says if I sit outside in January, it likely will put me six feet under. Same for Barbara. So I guess we’re stuck in …

Bargain hunters score big at Tri Delta shopping extravangaza

Members of Houston’s Tri Delta alumna partnered with Texas Children’s Cancer Center to host a January shopping extravaganza, The Sale , to support pediatric cancer research in the Texas Medical Center. A champagne shopping preview kicked off the two-day affair as 300 attendees got first dibs on some fashionable finds.

Associate Dean for Research, School of Dentistry

The School of Dentistry of The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio invites applications from distinguished biomedical scientists for the position of Associate Dean for Research . The appointee will be invited to join the scientific and leadership teams at UT Health San Antonio in early 2017 and will serve as a member of the School’s senior leadership team under the guidance of the Dean.

Planned Parenthood Is Under Attack In Texas, And Media There Are Failing The Challenge

Texas media are omitting crucial information in reports on the state’s move to cut off Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood, including that Texas’ decision was largely based on debunked videos by an anti-abortion activist group, the Center for Medical Progress, and that the move will negatively impact women’s health. In contrast, reporting by online outlets geared toward women put Texas media to shame, explaining that the evidence behind the policy decision is misleading and that the defunding will have dire consequences for women’s health in Texas.

Texas officially kicking Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid

After more than a year of delays , Texas is officially kicking Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Medicaid program. In a move that could affect thousands of low-income women, state health officials on Tuesday delivered a final legal notice to defund the organization from the Medicaid program through which it provides family planning and women’s health services to the poor.