Posted on · Some object to paying for health insurance plans that cover preventive services that they say violate their religious beliefs, which could cause millions to lose access to care if the courts agree.
Posted on · The measure would spend $369 billion on energy and climate change initiatives. These include consumer tax credits and rebates for buying clean-energy vehicles and encouraging home energy efficiency.
Posted on · Hundreds of thousands of Texans who are intellectually and developmentally disabled have applied for home and community-based therapies under the Medicaid Waivers program.
Posted on · Since Monday’s leak of a draft order from the Supreme Court’s reported decision to overturn Roe v Wade, an Austin-based reproductive care and education agency reported more than 700 requests for emergency contraception kits.
Posted on · Admiral Rachel Levine, the highest ranking trans person in government, spoke at the annual Out for Health Conference.
Posted on · On Thursday's show: Harris County failed to finish the election count on time — a claim the elections administrator denies. So, what's going on and what does it mean? Plus, a conversation with the new chair of the Metro board, and remembering Houston blues musician and band leader Milton Hopkins.
Posted on · Texans have more and cheaper 2022 health insurance plans to choose from on healthcare.gov.
Posted on · On Tuesday's show: We examine a set of “emergency items” for the Texas legislative session the governor revealed Monday night. And we learn how fighting COVID-19 has changed medical care for the better.
Posted on · The deadline for enrolling in health plans on HealthCare.gov was supposed to be Sunday. But the federal agency in charge reopened the sign-up period, after an outcry over technical glitches.
Posted on · A growing number of physicians are employed by hospitals and they tend to charge patients more, according to the Rice study.
Posted on · Workforce deficits are worst in the psychiatric and obstetrics and gynecology specialties, with unmet demand in 2019 sitting at 32% and 21%, respectively.
Posted on · "What St. Luke’s needs more than anything else is no more changes for awhile.”
Posted on · Healthcare? There's an app for that.
Posted on · “Our most important obligation at this point is to listen carefully to the findings,” says Doug Lawson.
Posted on · The founder of Patients for Affordable Drugs has an incurable form of cancer.