Health Care
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Women’s Health Program Has New Life
THE 2011 MOLLY PRIZE WINNERS WINNER Jeff Sharlet is the author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy (Little, Brown), The Family: The Sec...Read More
Democrats’ No-Win Choice on the Women’s Health Program
GOP attacks on Planned Parenthood put Democrats in tough spot
Democrats in the Legislature are being forced to choose between two evils when it comes to renewing the Women’s Health Program—a drastically reduced program...Read More
Miller: Family Planning Clinics Will Just Have to Deal with Cuts
Republicans hope faith-based groups can pick up slack
We reported yesterday on a legislative analysis obtained by the Observer that estimates family planning cuts contained in the House budget would lead to 284,000...Read More
Deuell Puts Planned Parenthood in No-Win Scenario
Bill to renew Women's Health Program axes Planned Parenthood
Updated May 3 1:26 p.m. This morning the Senate Health and Human Services committee voted 6-1, with two absent members, to send SB 1854 to the Senate floor. S...Read More
[Updated} Senate Passes Sonogram Bill For the Second Time This Session
Updated May 4, 9:28 a.m. Rep. Sid Miller, House sponsor of the sonogram bill, announced Wednesday morning he accepts the Senate’s amendments passed on Mon...Read More
The Lege That Rocks the Cradle
Some women may argue that this hasn’t been a good session for women, which is their right, at least for now. But all Texas women should feel secure in the kno...Read More
PACE-d Progress for Program to Help Elderly Stay at Home
With all the talk of closing nursing homes and kicking granny to the curb, it was refreshing to hear Texas lawmakers discuss a bill aimed at improving care for ...Read More
Immigrant Healthcare is a National Concern
From NewsTaco, where this blog was first published. This makes perfect sense, and it puts the debate where it should go: in the realm of public health. Accordin...Read More
[Updated] Sonogram’s 24-Hr Provision to Exempt Rural Counties
The deal between House members and one Senate Democrat has paved the way for the controversial legislation
Update, April 12, 2011, 12:20 p.m.: The State Affairs Committee voted the new sonogram bill out of committee with a vote of six to two. The committee’s tw...Read More