Texas Medical Association Joins Push to Have CHIP Added to Call for Special Session
from The Rio Grande Guardian, June 29, 2009
 The largest state medical society in the nation wants to see the Children’s Health Insurance Program added to the call for the special session starting on Wednesday. The Texas Medical Association represents nearly 44,000 physician and medical student members. "Texas physicians applaud Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, and Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, for standing up for Texas' uninsured children," the TMA said, in a statement. More
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TMA President On the Air
from KLBJ-AM via Teleclips, June 30, 2009
TMA President William Fleming III, MD, discusses Gov. Perry and this month's special legislative session in this brief radio clip. More
Health Care Leaders Say 2009 Legislative Session Successful
from The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, June 28, 2009
"I think we fared fairly well in this session," said Dr. William Fleming, a Houston-area neurologist who is president of the Texas Medical Association. "We did get most of the measures passed that we set out to get passed. "We think there are some things [approved] that will enhance patient safety, and expand access to all Texans to healthcare." More
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Medical Liability Insurer Dropping Rates by 11 Percent in Texas
from The Insurance Journal, June 30, 2009
Austin, Texas-based medical professional liability insurer, Medicus Insurance Company has announced an overall 11 percent rate decrease for its insureds in Texas. The Texas Department of Insurance approved the reduction effective May 15, 2009. More
Doctors Say Costs, Not Care, Have Become Focus
from NPR, June 30, 2009
NPR, June 30
Over the past few decades, health care costs in the United States have soared, leaving some physicians struggling to provide the best care for their patients while managing the business end of their practices. More
Residents, Officials Discuss Proposed Health Care Plan
from The Longview News-Journal, June 28, 2009
Good Shepherd Medical Center CEO Ed Banos told a packed room of Gregg County residents Saturday that President Barack Obama's plan for universal health care could penalize medical professionals. Frank Tibiletti, Texas Medical Association member and local obstetrician, said he has his reservations about Obama's plan, but admits dialogue on the topic is a good thing. "We can't solve this in three months," Tibiletti said. "But we certainly can talk about it, so I'm encouraged by what I see today." More
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Schnurman: Texas Likely to be In Cross Hairs of Health Care Reform Movement
from The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, June 27, 2009
More than a quarter of Texans don't have health insurance, close to the worst mark in the nation, and it turns out that the state has another dubious distinction. Medicare spending is rising faster here than anywhere, and the extra money isn't producing better results. Those two factors alone - limited access to care and fast-growing costs - are driving healthcare reform in Washington, and they should put Texas in the cross hairs of the movement. More
Opinion: Is McAllen's Health Care Problem the Doctors or the Patients?
from The Dallas Morning News, June 30, 2009
Thanks to a June 1 New Yorker article cited by President Barack Obama and others, McAllen is now notorious for wasteful spending on health care. McAllen's doctors say the problem isn't waste but sickness. Patients reach doctors and hospitals with a host of full-blown maladies that preventive care could have avoided at much lower cost. So is the problem with the doctors or the patients? More
McCain Stumps in Houston for Republican Health Care Reform
from KHOU-TV, June 30, 2009
On the same day the nation's largest private employer announced it supports at least part of President Obama's health care reform plan, his biggest political adversary visited Houston to continue his campaign against it. Senator John McCain, along with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senator John Cornyn, held a one-hour town hall-style meeting at MD Anderson Cancer Center in the Texas Medical Center. More
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Many With Insurance Still Bankrupted by Health Crises
from CNBC, June 30, 2009
Health insurance is supposed to offer protection - both medically and financially. But as it turns out, an estimated three-quarters of people who are pushed into personal bankruptcy by medical problems actually had insurance when they got sick or were injured. One of them is Lawrence Yurdin, a 64-year-old computer security specialist. Although the brochure on his Aetna policy seemed to indicate it covered up to $150,000 a year in hospital care, the fine print excluded nearly all of the treatment he received at an Austin, Tex., hospital. More
Texas Still in Top 15 for Obesity
from The Houston Chronicle, July 1, 2009
Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. Texas ranked 14th among the state with an obesity rate of 27.9 percent. That's slimmer than neighbors Oklahoma (29.5 percent) and Louisiana (28.9 percent) but fatter than New Mexico (24.6 percent). More
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