Solutions

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 applaud Sen. Tommy Williams for his OpEd piece in Saturday’s Houston Chronicle where he calls for our state to implement a Texas solution to health care reform, saying that we need to introduce co-pays for Medicaid, establish reimbursement rates designed to encourage quality patient outcomes, expand managed care...

Following is a re-posting of the publicly accessible portion of a R&D Report from the Quorum Report, with all applicable copyright protections. The conclusion of this post contains details on how to access the entire report. March 5, 2013      3:56 PM MOORHEAD & BUJANDA: IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT...

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...

I'm honored to be included in the conversations the media is having about Texans and the upcoming federal Health Insurance Marketplace (so far, Texas has declined to run its own state Marketplace, so we have no choice but to join the federal Marketplace). Please help me spread the word...

Recommend this story (below) in the Houston Chronicle by Chris Tomlinson about the challenge we're facing with 25% of our citizens uninsured. We can implement commonsense solutions to cover the uninsured, and I hope articles like Tomlinson's continue to move the conversation forward towards covering Texas' uninsured citizens. June 1...

9.5 million Americans are signed up for Health Insurance Marketplace so far during the open enrollment, which ends February 15, 2015. For more details, including state insights, see this news release from HHS.gov.

Texas-style Health Care Reform covers all the bases with a smart, balanced and pragmatic approach to: Cover everyone Build Personal Accountability Consolidate Program Funding Transform the Provider Payment Policy. Details of implementing this plan continue to be shaped by the unfolding conversation. Specific examples of putting a New, Healthy Texas...