Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Monday, August 25, 2025

Texas and Trump: Failing Grades on Abortion and Measles

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A couple of recent articles show the impact of massive public-health failures on the part of both the state of Texas and the federal governm...
Friday, November 08, 2024

Texas Tax-Exempt Hospitals & Charity Care: Surprisingly Progressive

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In 1985 -- one year before Congress added EMTALA to Medicare's Conditions of Participation -- Texas became the first state in the countr...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Health Care Fraud: Texas Style

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On Oct. 15 a federal jury in Houston convicted  the owner of a firm that operated 14 pharmacies, on fifteen counts including conspiracy to c...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Texas Governor Abbott Weaponizes Charity Care

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Uncompensated care is a serious issue that requires a serious response from serious politicians. On Thursday, rather than doing something to...
Sunday, August 04, 2024

U.S. DOJ Closes Gun Show Loophole; Judge Kacsmaryk (Of Course) Blocks Rule (Of Course) in 4 States

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As I have noted before, firearm violence is a public-health disaster. The Justice Department has taken a major step in the effort to keep fi...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

The Cruelty of Texas's Abortion Ban (SB 8)

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A recent MSNBC News report (posted July 11, 2024, 4:19 PM CDT) illustrates the casual cruelty of Texas Senate Bill 8, which bans abortions ...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Infant Mortality in Texas -- Already High -- Increased After SB 8 and Dobbs

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A new study in JAMA Pediatrics  (June 24, 2024) (abstract  here , apparently free, at least for a while) finds that infant and neonatal deat...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

JAMA: Texas Medical Board Dropped the Ball with its Abortion "Exceptions" Rule

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The authors of an opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association (published on-line today) offer their critique of the ...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Texas Medical Board Publishes Proposed Rules Re: Exceptions to Texas's Abortion Ban

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It took a strongly worded "suggestion" from the Texas Supreme Court (in its "know-nothing" opinion in the Kate Cox case ...
Friday, March 08, 2024

Biden's State of the Union Address: 13 Health Care Take-aways

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Becker's Hospital Review takes a look at "13 healthcare takeaways" from President Biden's State of the Union address las...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

JAMA On-line: Scorn for Approach of Texas Supreme Court and AG in Cases Involving Exceptions to Abortion Ban

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In an excellent on-line (and free) commentary in JAMA (Jan. 22, 2024), three Harvard authors ask the question: "Whose Responsibility I...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

Ruth Marcus: Calling Out the Texas Supreme Court for its Opinion in the Kate Cox Case

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Ruth Marcus is one of the most acute observers of political cultural and political life in this country. Now add legal commentary to her too...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Kaiser: Who Decides When a Patient Qualifies for an Abortion Ban Exception? Doctors vs. the Courts

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 Here's a thoughtful brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation on abortion-ban exceptions around the country. It starts with a quick summ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Texas Supreme Court Puts an Exclamation Point on Kate Cox's Doomed Quest for Reproductive Health Care in Texas

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Late yesterday (12/11) the Supreme Court of Texas issued a seven-page per curiam   opinion that reversed the trial court's order in the...
Monday, December 11, 2023

Kate Cox Leaves Texas to Obtain an Abortion

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I put up a series of posts last week to illustrate the tortuous path taken by Kate Cox in order to terminate a pregnancy that posed a threat...
Saturday, December 09, 2023

Texas Supreme Court Stays Trial Court's Abortion Order

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The court entered an "administrative stay" pending review of the TxAG's request for mandamus in the Cox  case. In almost any ...
Friday, August 11, 2023

Texas Case Highlights the Human Cost of Texas's Abortion Ban

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After the Supreme Court's Dobbs  decision, much was written about the human suffering that will result once states ban or seriously rest...