Thursday, September 29, 2011
Sunday’s keynote speaker Neera Tanden, former advisor to President Obama on health reform, seemed to tailor her presentation to the early morning session. She said that health insurance is different from other items out on the marketplace because when people go to the...
Thursday, September 29, 2011
After a year-long struggle, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and then amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. The intended purpose of the law was to insure the...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
This past weekend Colleen Horton and I attended the Texas Tribune Festival. The popular Texas-based news source invited an impressive group of speakers to Austin for a two-day gathering in hopes of developing a more informed discourse on issues that are important to...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Saturday morning we sat in on U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess’ presentation, “The Case Against Obamacare.” Overall I thought the discussion lacked clarity. Both Rep. Burgess and moderator Scott Braddock seemed more interested in a discussion of the politics surrounding the...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
The second Health and Human Services presentation was a panel discussion of Texas Proposition 12, the 2003 constitutional amendment that limits patient damages in malpractice suits. The Tribune provided great live coverage of this and other presentations at the...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Tom Suehs, executive commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), had the final presentation on Saturday. Suehs spoke mostly of a Medicaid crisis and highlighted the fact that the program takes up a growing proportion of the state budget....
