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May 11, 2012
Texas Insurance Companies Waste More Money Than Any State's -- But You May Get Some Back
If you are one of the 18 million or so Texans who have health insurance, you may find something unusual in your mailbox this summer: an envelope from your insurance company stuffed with cash or, more likely, a check. That's when the provision of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) will requ ... More >>
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April 26, 2012
Booze Hounds
If you are one of the 18 million or so Texans who have health insurance, you may find something unusual in your mailbox this summer: an envelope from your insurance company stuffed with cash or, more likely, a check. That's when the provision of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) will requ ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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October 20, 2011
Before He Talks to Council, Meet Frank Luntz
Perhaps by now you've seen Rudy Bush's item about Frank Luntz, one of two speakers lined up to address the city council at its Arboretum retreat today. Among pols and media folks, Luntz is a pretty well-known guy -- after all, he's the man who, in 2003, told George W. Bush to start referring to "glo ... More >>
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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 >>
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September 12, 2011
Dollar Signs and EKG Lines: Dallas Heart Disease Study "Striking" For Poor Young People
We hear a lot about income inequality these days, as we do about our collectively clogged arteries. But it's less often that we're reminded of how one affects the other. A study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal does just that, tracking the connection between cardiac arrest and ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
Doc's Whistleblowing Results in Parkland, UT Southwestern Paying $1.4 Million to Feds
Gentilello in a 2005 UT Southwestern photoAmidst 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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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February 24, 2011
Bridge Building
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 >>
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December 16, 2010
Golden Acres Heads to Federal Court to Take on Kathleen Sebelius and Medicare's "Hospice Cap"
Kathleen SebeliusThe National Alliance for Hospice Access lays out very clearly what the so-called "hospice cap" is, but long story short: In 1982, Congress enacted a law that allowed Medicare beneficiaries to choose hospice care over hospital care. There was one caveat: Congress put in place a c ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?
Kathleen SebeliusThe National Alliance for Hospice Access lays out very clearly what the so-called "hospice cap" is, but long story short: In 1982, Congress enacted a law that allowed Medicare beneficiaries to choose hospice care over hospital care. There was one caveat: Congress put in place a c ... More >>
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November 11, 2010
It's You or the Dog
Kathleen SebeliusThe National Alliance for Hospice Access lays out very clearly what the so-called "hospice cap" is, but long story short: In 1982, Congress enacted a law that allowed Medicare beneficiaries to choose hospice care over hospital care. There was one caveat: Congress put in place a c ... More >>
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October 19, 2010
Dallas Attorney Predicts Obama's Health Care Act Will Be Good for ... Local Real Estate
Homeland Security AffairsAttorney Lew Lefko, a partner in Renaissance Tower-based Winstead PC, has worked in some aspect of the health-care profession for most of his career. Hence his appearance on GlobeSt.com this morning, where he tells Jennifer Duell Popovec that Texas stands to gain plenty f ... More >>
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August 17, 2009
Outside a Quiet Two-Party Town Hall, Health Care Demonstrators Take To the Streets
Patrick MichelsDemonstrators on both sides of the debate shared space outside this morning's town hall meeting with Rep. Pete Sessions and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson.Update: Check out our slide show for more photos from the meeting and the protest.Walking up to the health care reform protest outs ... More >>
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July 6, 2009
Today In Music News: Obama Still Loves Jackson and Kanye Becomes A Director
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 6, 2009... Americans can sleep easier tonight: President Obama still has Michael Jackson songs on his iPod. Now, how about that universal health care, sir? Kanye West now has something else he's the best in the world at: being a music video di ... More >>
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October 5, 2006
Old Folks
AARP's president visits Borders
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February 19, 2004
Wheeler Dealers
Feds allege scam artists bilked Medicare for millions
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June 6, 2002
Hoosegow HMO
A contained experiment in Medicaid
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February 4, 1999
Slicing the pie
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison switches to the side of the angels in Texas' tobacco battle
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August 1, 1996
Congressional hopeful Jerry Frankel has ideas, brains, and GUTS.
Dick Armey will eat his lunch.
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January 11, 1996
A pox on 1995!
Next year will be better
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November 30, 1995
Rich man's Robin Hood
GOP budget is greatest-ever transfer of wealth from the Have-Nots to the Haves
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August 24, 1995
Couldn't Medicare less
Shady goings-on in the fight over health care

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