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Medicaid

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Judge: Texas Can Kick Planned Parenthood Out of the Women's Health Program

    When we said yesterday Planned Parenthood could remain part of the Texas's Medicaid Women's Health Program "for now," we didn't know "now" would last less than 24 hours. A Fifth Circuit appeals judge has overturned yesterday's preliminary injunction blocking Texas from kicking Planned Parenthood o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    The Defunding of Women's Health Care in Texas May Force Rural Clinics to Close

    We keep hammering away at this same general point, but really: It's been a terrible year for family planning providers in Texas. First the Legislature moved $73.6 million out of the state family-planning budget for the next two years . At the same time, they changed to a tiered funding structure tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    "It's Getting Rather Messy": The Best of the Rick Perry Facebook Bomb

    Over at the Morning News' Trail Blazers Blog, Christy Hoppe pointed out late yesterday that Rick Perry's Facebook page has been "inundated by angry women" unhappy about the end of the Medicaid Women's Health Program. Perry's Facebook bomb is actually part of a larger effort to "sarcasm-flood" the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2012

    Texas AG Greg Abbott Is Suing the Feds Over the Women's Health Program

    We realize you're probably too busy side-stepping puddles of green puke to give much of a shit about what's going on in Austin. Nonetheless, we feel obliged to note that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit late yesterday against the federal government over its decision to withdraw fed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Federal Medicaid Agency Lays Out Just How The Women's Health Program Will End

    What prompted Governor Rick Perry's frenzied bout of outraged tweeting about the Women's Health Program yesterday? As much as we'd like to speculate that it was a bad batch of PCP (and will continue to do so privately, purely for our own amusement, not because it's at all true), it was actually one ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Planned Parenthood Director Turned Pro-Life Superstar Is Suing PP For Alleged Medicaid Fraud

    As long as we're on the general theme of "unpleasant events that are somehow related to the Medicaid Women's Health Program," let's throw this one in there too: Abby Johnson, who was until a couple of years ago the director of a clinic that was part of Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast, is now su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2012

    Rick Perry Vows to Save the Medicaid Women's Health Program from the Evil Feds

    Update, March 10: Federal Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced late Friday in Houston that federal funding to the WHP would be cut. She said the program will wind down over the next several months, and that the feds are considering funding Planned Parenthood directly. In r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    The Race for Texas' New Congressional District Is Going To Be Very Interesting. And Crowded.

    Let's just call it: Everyone in town is running for Congress. Okay, not everyone, but the race for the newly-created, much-argued-over Congressional District 33 has gotten very, very crowded, especially on the Democrats' side. Last night we watched as former Dallas city council member -- and may ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Rick Perry and State Health Commissioner Insist Obama Hates Women, Loves Abortion

    A few days ago, we told you that Texas's Medicaid Women's Health Program appears to be on death's door, which could leave some 130,000 low-income Texas women without vital medical care. We also mentioned that Gov. Rick Perry's administration appeared eager to blame the program's end on the feds broa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    From Texas or Russia, Medicare Scamsters Are All the Same -- Greedy

    Here we are, with the biggest Medicare fraud in history going -- so we are told -- and The New York Times devotes its front page today to a story about Medicare fraud carried out by organized Russian gangs in ... oh, guess where! ... New York City! What can we do down here in Dallas to get respect? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    The Bridge's CEO Explains Shelter's Role in Exposing Alleged $375 Mil Health Care Scam

    ​When the U.S. Attorney's Office unsealed the indictment yesterday alleging that Dr. Jacques Roy spearheaded the largest healthcare fraud in the nation's history out of his DeSoto office, they revealed that in 2010, he dispatched recruiters to The Bridge downtown. Their mission: pay homeless Medic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    Feds Allege Local Doctor Behind "Largest Healthcare Fraud Case" in U.S. History

    ​We received a release this morning from the U.S. Attorney's Office inviting us to a noon-thirty press conference at the Earle Cabell, at which time U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldaña, Deputy Attorney General James Cole and a host of other federal officials would address "a major health care fraud enfor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Medicaid Women's Health Program Is One Step Closer To Death

    The Medicaid Women's Health Program provides some 130,000 Texas women with vital medical care: family planning, birth control, cancer screenings and annual exams. And for that, of course, it must die. That, at least, has long been the case as far as Republican lawmakers are concerned. And after last ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Disabled Girl's Treatment Coverage Depends on Definition of "Hippotherapy"

    Mark Samuels, a captain in the Navy, and Jennifer, his wife, never imagined their first time in court would be fighting for healthcare benefits for their daughter Kaitlyn. The 15-year-old was born with an uncommon brain condition similar to cerebral palsy. She cannot communicate verbally and functio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    A Successful Health Program May End Thanks to Texas's Quest to Kill Planned Parenthood

    ViaYou, sir, must not be a Texas legislator.​It's been a good 14 minutes since the state twisted its rusty knife into the already-wounded gut of women's healthcare. But fear not: There's a huge, ugly storm brewing between the state and federal governments over the Medicaid Women's Health Progr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    As Parkland Hospital Selects Interim CEO, It Also Decides What to Do With Ron Anderson

    ​The man who see at right is Thomas C. Royer, M.D., who, for 12 years, was the man in charge of CHRISTUS Health, described on its website as "a Catholic health ministry." Not long ago he received the American Hospital Association's Distinguished Service Award, one among myriad high honors on a ré ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2011

    The End of Family Planning in Texas

    They say they defunded Planned Parenthood. But lawmakers' attack on family planning will cost Texas money, reduce access to healthcare and result in even more abortions.

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Old White People Who Think They Can Just Check Out Should Think Again

    So what is all this anger among the old white people really all about? Why are old white people wearing odd costumes and hating the president all the time? We old white people all know exactly what it is. But nobody will say it out loud. It never comes out in the stories, even though it's right the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Doc's Whistleblowing Results in Parkland, UT Southwestern Paying $1.4 Million to Feds

    Gentilello in a 2005 UT Southwestern photo​Amidst all the other things going on with Parkland at the moment, there remains one other Very Big Thing you've probably forgotten all about: Dr. Larry Gentilello's allegations that trauma residents at the county hospital were treating patients and perfo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    It's Getting Expensive As City, Whistleblowing Auditor Wrangle Over Retaliation Claims

    ​Of the myriad lawsuits involving the city, Doug Moore v. City of Dallas et al is among the most expensive -- and getting a little more pricey all the time. This case, for those not keeping score at home, has already cost the city $2.5 million, paid to the state and the feds in June over allegatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Which Local Lawmakers Made Texas Monthly's Annual Best and Worst List? Let's Take a Look.

    Rep. Dan Branch​Pardon me as we take a brief detour from the parade route for just a moment, but Texas Monthly's just posted its latest list of the best and worst state legislators -- and Leo Berman made worst? No way. Anyway. The preview's here, sans further categories awaiting their print and on ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2011

    Senator Wendy Davis Draws a Line in the Dirt

    At last, a Democrat is willing to stand up to Perrypublicans.

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    State GOP Legislators' Revenge Won't Be on Democrats, But on the Old, Poor and Sick

    ​People all over America should watch the special session of the Texas Legislature, just now beginning, if they want to see what Republicans are really up to. Among other things, they're out to kill Medicare and Medicaid. The regular session was stymied at the last minute when Democratic sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    My New Hero, Fort Worth's Wendy Davis, Who Sure as Hell Ain't Scared Of Rick Perry

    ​Thank the Lord every once in a while the American political system churns out a Wendy Davis, the 48-year-old Senate freshman from Fort Worth who filibustered Rick Perry's legislative session to a soggy grave in the wee small hours of Monday night. The Perrypublican fury over Davis's act isn't me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Why Should You Pay for Park Cities Dowagers' Trinity Baubles?

    ​Check me on this. In an atmosphere of federal, state, county and city funding crises, where we may even see the defunding of federal health care reform, the gutting of the Environmental Protection Agency, an absolute decimation of support for public schools and impoverished children, drastic ... More >>

  • News

    March 31, 2011

    How Bad Will Things Have to Get Before We Make Them Better?

    ​Check me on this. In an atmosphere of federal, state, county and city funding crises, where we may even see the defunding of federal health care reform, the gutting of the Environmental Protection Agency, an absolute decimation of support for public schools and impoverished children, drastic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Does Texas Need a Debacle?

    ​Two experiences over the weekend have given me hope. One was watching a documentary on the catastrophic 1911 Triangle Waist Factory Fire in New York, and the other was a seminar I attended on the state budget crisis. Debacles can be good for us. The documentary made an argument that the sh ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Mexican Macro-economics

    ​Two experiences over the weekend have given me hope. One was watching a documentary on the catastrophic 1911 Triangle Waist Factory Fire in New York, and the other was a seminar I attended on the state budget crisis. Debacles can be good for us. The documentary made an argument that the sh ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

    ​Two experiences over the weekend have given me hope. One was watching a documentary on the catastrophic 1911 Triangle Waist Factory Fire in New York, and the other was a seminar I attended on the state budget crisis. Debacles can be good for us. The documentary made an argument that the sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    Food Bank CEO Says Hunger Report Reveals Chasm Between "The Two Dallases"

    ​Food-relief agencies across the country spent the better part of today poring over documents that tell them what they already know and have known for months, if not longer: There are more people going hungry in this country than there were in 2006, the last time Feeding America commissioned a Hun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2007

    ACS to Let Georgians Know Their Rights After Betraying Their Trust

    ​Food-relief agencies across the country spent the better part of today poring over documents that tell them what they already know and have known for months, if not longer: There are more people going hungry in this country than there were in 2006, the last time Feeding America commissioned a Hun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2007

    Indiana Has a Pain in the ACS

    ​Food-relief agencies across the country spent the better part of today poring over documents that tell them what they already know and have known for months, if not longer: There are more people going hungry in this country than there were in 2006, the last time Feeding America commissioned a Hun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2007

    Darwin's ACS in a Sling. Or Not.

    ​Food-relief agencies across the country spent the better part of today poring over documents that tell them what they already know and have known for months, if not longer: There are more people going hungry in this country than there were in 2006, the last time Feeding America commissioned a Hun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2006

    Pain in the ACS?

    ​Food-relief agencies across the country spent the better part of today poring over documents that tell them what they already know and have known for months, if not longer: There are more people going hungry in this country than there were in 2006, the last time Feeding America commissioned a Hun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2006

    Re: Dallas is Anti-Pro Bono

    ​Food-relief agencies across the country spent the better part of today poring over documents that tell them what they already know and have known for months, if not longer: There are more people going hungry in this country than there were in 2006, the last time Feeding America commissioned a Hun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2006

    MoveOn, Michael Burgess

    ​Food-relief agencies across the country spent the better part of today poring over documents that tell them what they already know and have known for months, if not longer: There are more people going hungry in this country than there were in 2006, the last time Feeding America commissioned a Hun ... More >>

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Tax Dollars at Work

    Hey, armed robbers need bullets, too!

  • News

    June 6, 2002

    Hoosegow HMO

    A contained experiment in Medicaid

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    Resistance is Futile

    Despite new state and federal regulations, mentally ill Texans are still dying while being restrained by the very people they turn to for help

  • News

    October 4, 2001

    Home Unsweet Home

    When a Garland nursing center started to slip, a group of concerned sons and daughters decided to do something about it. The management had other ideas.

  • News

    March 15, 2001

    Rising STAR

    Privatizing health care for the poor might work--if the state will pay for it

  • News

    October 28, 1999

    Quick Fix

    After years of financial neglect, the state is hoping a shot of privatization will cure Dallas County's addicted and mentally ill population

  • News

    February 4, 1999

    Slicing the pie

    Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison switches to the side of the angels in Texas' tobacco battle

  • News

    January 11, 1996

    A pox on 1995!

    Next year will be better

  • News

    December 28, 1995

    The new Civil War

    Tax breaks for corporations are about to tear us in half

  • News

    November 30, 1995

    Rich man's Robin Hood

    GOP budget is greatest-ever transfer of wealth from the Have-Nots to the Haves

  • News

    October 12, 1995

    Falling into The Gap

    The chasm separating the haves and have-nots is getting wider

  • News

    August 17, 1995

    Unkindest cuts

    The chasm separating the haves and have-nots is getting wider

  • News

    July 27, 1995

    Getting real

    Clinton's plans for fixing affirmative action are sensible and moderate

  • News

    March 9, 1995

    Dumb and dumber

    The Nation of Nitwits rolls along with the Republican Revolution

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