It has been said “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” In the ongoing barrage against evidence-based data and real reality, let’s see if we can bring some clarity to the conversation around the Health Insurance Marketplace, the exchange that allows consumers to pick health insurance plans and was...
Vaccines save lives. That's the truth I experience every day leading a health insurance company covering the lives of more than 250,000 children. We pay millions of dollars each year to immunize all of our members. We have "wellness callers" who make calls every day to encourage and make...
I was honored to talk with Fox 26 Weekend Anchor Sally MacDonald about the need for more community-based health care solutions in Houston, Harris County, and throughout Texas. Sally and her producers conducted this interview in partnership with Community Impact Newspapers. Links to read more from the original story...
Karen Love, Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning and Partnerships at Community Health Choice, was a panelist at the January 15th One Voice Texas Healthcare & Behavioral Health Educational Forum in Austin, Texas. In this first week of the opening session of the 84th Legislature, Karen spoke compellingly about the difference health...
We appreciate the forward-looking stewardship Judge Ed Emmett brings to his role as the leader of the most populous county in Texas. Nowhere is this more apparent than in his call for “more support from the State of Texas and through new strategies and partnerships” to address indigent...
The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute is one of our contributing content partners on NHT. We're glad to feature their recent update on mental health policies and pending legislation that appeared in the Austin American Statesman. The link to the original article is below.
Commentary: Legislators poised to make progress...
We appreciate the Texas Association of Business sponsoring an Austin billboard celebrating the "Texas-sized" savings Medicaid Managed Care has produced. Medicaid Managed Care is a success story, keeping costs down while increasing access to care and improving health outcomes. While Medicaid Managed Care in Texas still has room...
I was glad to speak with Houston Chronicle reporter Markian Hawryluk for today's story about healthcare funding: $4 billion in health care for poor Texans at risk as doubts rise about Medicaid agreement
While healthcare policies can be complex, healthcare funding can be much more complex, particularly when differing ideologies...