by Jessica Montoya Coggins | Aug 27, 2020 | Health Care, Policy
Yesterday, the Texas Democratic Party held a virtual press conference regarding the state of healthcare in Texas. State leaders and candidates emphasized just how dangerous the Republican Party is when it comes to healthcare. Texas leads the nation in the level of...
by Jessica Montoya Coggins | Aug 6, 2020 | Health Care, Policy
On Tuesday, Missouri became the 38th state to expand Medicaid, opening healthcare to over 230,000 Missourians. It joins a lengthy list of GOP-led states in expanding healthcare, including Nebraska, Utah, and Oklahoma. Meanwhile in Texas we still lead the country in...
by Fernando Ramirez | May 14, 2020 | Health Care, Policy
Health policy researchers estimate 1.6 million Texans have lost their employer-based health coverage since the start of the pandemic. The new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation calculated the number by looking at unemployment insurance claims and...
by Signal Staff | Dec 18, 2019 | Health Care, Policy
A federal appeals court voided the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday. “The individual mandate is unconstitutional because it can no longer be read as a tax, and there is no other constitutional provision that justifies this exercise...
by Signal Staff | Oct 30, 2019 | Health Care, Policy
U.S. Senator John Cornyn tries to walk through the motions of supporting health care for all Texans, but, in the end, he couldn’t bring himself around to doing so. On Wednesday, he voted to defend junk health care plans, which aren’t required to cover...
