Posted on · A new report from Texas A&M and the Episcopal Health Foundation shows an increase of 1.6 million Texans joining Medicaid since the beginning of the pandemic.
Posted on · The bill would amend the Children’s Health Insurance Program to include things like IUDs and birth control pills.
Posted on · A third of all publicly-insured children in Texas have a non-citizen parent, some 1.1 million kids.
Posted on · Kristie Tingle, a research analyst with the Center for Public Policy Priorities, highlights the need to reform the school finance system and the importance of the 2020 Census.
Posted on · The Children's Health Insurance Program has now been funded, for 6 more years. But local clinics still face hurdles, to help those who fall through the cracks of America’s health care system.
Posted on · President Trump is marking the first anniversary of his inauguration with a government shutdown after funding lapsed at midnight. Lawmakers are back at the Capitol trying to break the impasse.
Posted on · ¿Qué papel han jugado DACA, la orden ejecutiva que protege a los jóvenes indocumentados de la deportación, y CHIP, el seguro médico para niños de bajos ingresos, en las negociaciones para evitar el cierre del gobierno?
Posted on · First things first: Don't panic. This too shall pass.
Posted on · Doctors are telling families to refill prescriptions now. Other physicians are giving away drugs to make sure patients have enough if the Children's Health Insurance Program goes unfunded
Posted on · The Center for American Progress, the ACLU and the NAACP are some of the organizations telling Republican and Democratic leaders those three issues are priorities
Posted on · State officials submitted a request with the federal government on Nov. 16 for an extra $90 million to support CHIP in the state until February
Posted on · Texas already has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country
Posted on · Advocates say Texas will run out of funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program sooner than they thought. The program, which Congress failed to...
Posted on · Insurance coverage for more than 390,000 Texas children and pregnant women is in jeopardy. Patrick Bresette, executive director of the Children's Defense Fund’s Texas office, joins us to discuss how the CHIP program works, its history, and what hurdles remain to its reauthorization.
Posted on · On Thursday's edition of Houston Matters: We learn the latest on Furr High School's reassigned principal, Dr. Bertie Simmons, who's under scrutiny for her administrative practices. We learn about the fate of the Children's Health Insurance Program. And we meet Brazilian artist Tony Paraná.