Last month, a new law that aims to suffocate reproductive healthcare providers like Planned Parenthood officially went into effect. The law, Senate Bill 22, prevents state and county governments from partnering with healthcare providers that offer abortion,...
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back to archiveUnder the GOP, rural Texas’ challenges are growing
Amid all the talk of Texas being a swing state because of its big city blue meccas, it’s easy, but perilous, to lose sight of the roughly 3 million people who live in rural areas. For the past century, the state’s rural population has been dwindling, it’s young...
It’s going to take a village — and a different mindset — to improve health care in Texas
Nestled next to Brays Bayou in downtown Houston is MD Anderson, one of the top cancer treatment centers in the world. Less than fifteen miles away bordering the same bayou system is the Harrisburg/ Manchester neighborhood, one of the city’s most infamous hotspots for...
John Cornyn blames everyone except his drug company donors for the opioid crisis
Last month, a court ruling in Oklahoma ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million for helping create the state’s opioid crisis. The landmark ruling was the first of its kind to take on drug companies for manufacturing the opioid crisis through, according to the...
By the numbers: Texas’ failure to expand Medicaid
Following new U.S. Census data revealing an increase in the number of uninsured Americans, the Trump administration is blaming the Affordable Care Act, arguing that higher premiums under Obamacare have priced Americans out of having healthcare. In reality, the Census...
Cornyn attacks Democrats’ health care plans
Reacting to the Democratic primary debate on Thursday, Sen. John Cornyn blasted the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and the more progressive policy of Medicare-for-All. “O-care didn’t deliver on promises and [the] real goal is socialized medicine,”...
Ahead of debate, doctors remind Texans what’s at stake
Democratic presidential candidates are busy preparing for the third major debate where they may again discuss healthcare, which has dominated the two previous debates and the number one issue for voters. But ahead of the Houston debate on Thursday, doctors are...
Texas has the highest health care markup
While the high cost of health care is a national issue, it is a particularly dire problem in Texas. A recent Johns Hopkins study found that Texas has the highest health care markup ratio in the country. The markup ratio is what a hospital charges compared to...
New report: pharma executives are funding GOP senators, including Cornyn, over presidential candidates
Sen. John Cornyn is among two Republican lawmakers heavily supported by pharmaceutical CEOs, a new STAT investigation finds. The senator received $50,600 from pharmaceutical CEOs who, according to the health news outlet, are trying to thwart a bill in Congress that...