A Texas House panel revived legislation Monday to allow Texas to govern federal health care benefits on its own by joining a multistate agreement challenging federal health care law.
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06.02.2011
The Texas House approved the Health Care Compact on May 26. More details from the Texas Watchdog can be found here.
04.13.2011
If congressional Republicans' proposed solution to cutting health care costs — giving states block grants to fund Medicaid — sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Texas’ GOP lawmakers are backing similar proposals to put states in charge of deciding how to insure indigent children, the disabled and the very poor. Read...
03.31.2011
On March 29, 2011, HB5 passed the House Committee on State Sovereignty. Read the meeting minutes.
03.25.2011
Houston builder Leo Linbeck III says he didn’t ever think he’d wade into Texas health care politics, despite his previous work with charter schools, and his namesake father’s history as co-founder of the tort reform-friendly Texans For Lawsuit Reform. Read complete article.
03.22.2011
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – One year ago, Congress completed one of the most audacious power grabs in our country’s history when it gave final approval to ObamaCare. The Texas Public Policy Foundation was a vocal critic of the ObamaCare proposal, as our research showed it would increase health care costs and medical price inflation, slow our national economy, and still leave 30 million Americans uninsured. The events of the last year have only...
03.22.2011
Government-run health care programs are bankrupt and broken. Medicaid, specifically, is breaking the banks of all fifty states. To avert bankruptcy, and to reclaim authority and responsibility for providing health care to our neediest residents, Texas must chart our own path for health care. To do so, Texas and other...
03.09.2011
Control of Texas’ health care system would revert to state under proposal from Rep. Lois Kolkhorst challenging Obamacare. Read full article.
02.16.2011
Texas should join the effort to create a health care compact among the states and use it to switch control of health care programs from the federal government to the states. Read full article.
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