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Patients, Doctors Passionate but Calm at Health Care Forum
from The Austin American-Statesman Postcards Blog, Aug. 13, 2009
 When doctors and patients gathered at the Texas Medical Association to discuss health care reform, Dr. Robert Gunby, a past president of the association, told the audience at the beginning that he hoped the event wouldn't be as rowdy as he's heard some recent town hall meetings have been. "Please, don’t hit us," he asked the audience, perhaps only half-jokingly.
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Editorial: Tort Reform Must Be Part of Health Care Reform
from Gov. Rick Perry via The Washington Examiner, Aug. 13, 2009
To hear federal officials tell it, they've got all the answers on health care and it's up to the rest of us to sit, wait and embrace whatever solution - if any - they may eventually provide. I find this troubling, since states have shown they know a thing or two about solving problems that affect their citizens.
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JPS Voices Support for New M.D. Program at Health Science Center
from The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Aug. 13, 2009
Doctors at the JPS Health Network showed their support Thursday for an M.D. program at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. Dr. Sealy Massingill, president of the JPS medical staff, said he and other JPS physicians back the idea that the school should offer the new degree program in addition to its traditional degree in osteopathic medicine.
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Health Professionals Gather for 'House Call'
from ABC KTRK-TV Houston, Aug. 18, 2009
Health care reform has resulted in some lively town hall meetings locally, but the debate now has a new gathering style dubbed a "house call."
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Cornyn Seeks Health Input
from The Abilene Reporter-News, Aug. 12, 2009
Sen. John Cornyn is seeking input from businesses about health care reform, asking for responses from more than 300 Texas Chambers of Commerce, medical societies and physician groups through a short survey. The responses will be compiled by the chamber and be sent to local representatives.
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Clinic Executive Hopes New Bill Will Help Lure Physicians to Starr County
from The Rio Grande Guardian, Aug. 12, 2009
The good news for Starr County residents is that Nuestra Clinica del Valle has received sufficient federal funding to offer affordable health care in the county. The bad news is that the non-profit finds it really difficult to find health care professionals prepared to work there.
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Brown to Seek Re-election
from The Terrell Tribune, Aug. 12, 2009
Republican State Representative Betty Brown has announced her plan to seek re-election to the Texas House of Representatives. Brown has been recognized for her excellent conservative voting record by many organizations, including the National Rifle Association, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, Texas Medical Association, Texas Right to Life, Texas Farm Bureau, Texas Municipal Police Association and Texans for Lawsuit Reform.
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AMA on End-of-Life Debate: 'Egregious...Mischaracterization'
from The Wall Street Journal Health Blog, Aug. 13, 2009
Doctors don’t get paid for discussing end-of-life care with Medicare patients. That’s true whether the patient wants heroic measures taken to extend life in the hospital, or hospice care in the home. So, The Wall Street Journal notes, many doctors supported a provision in the big House health-care bill that would have paid physicians for talking to patients who chose to have discussions with their doctors about end-of-life care. But the outcry over the provision, amid assertions that a government "death panel" would decide whether patients live or die, has prompted the all-important Senate Finance Committee to exclude such a provision from their bill.
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Small Businesses Queasy from Health Care Proposal
from The Austin Business Journal, Aug. 14, 2009
Like the freon in the air conditioners Stan Johnson’s company installs, his support for health care reform that’s been proposed has evaporated. Johnson made that clear when he testified before Congress’ Small Business Committee about the stimulus package as a representative of the Air Conditioning Contractors of America; the last question posed to him was about health care.
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Proposed Sale to Hospital District Draws Firestorm
from The Houston Chronicle, Aug. 15, 2009
The majority of the Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital medical staff is unhappy about the facility's proposed sale to the Harris County Hospital District and will leave if the deal goes through, according to a number of doctors there. The staff members, whose retention is crucial to the hospital district's hope of consummating the transaction, believe the district's plan to market the facility to private insurance patients and make it financially viable is doomed, they said.
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Medication Shortage: MHMR Patients in Jeopardy
from El Paso Times, Aug. 18, 2009
Frustration will apparently go unassuaged as money for medications is due to run out for as many as 1,500 people on the El Paso Mental Health Mental Retardation rolls. More persons in need will soon be forced to seek care at hospital emergency rooms as indigents, and some will wind up in the county jail. Both scenarios come at taxpayer expense.
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Doctors Versus the AMA
from Forbes, Aug. 17, 2009
Doctors are organizing against ObamaCare all over the country. Yet it's without the support of the biggest national doctors lobby, the American Medical Association. Within two days of the House passing its health bill through the Energy and Commerce Committee in late July, the AMA gave the President a rare bit of good news by endorsing the bill.
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Fort Worth Physician Honored for Family Medicine Research
from The Fort Worth Business Press, Aug. 17
Dr. Linda Siy of Fort Worth was named the Philanthropist of the Year by the Texas Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, an award started in 1995 to recognize doctors who have made significant impact toward supporting family medicine research and future family physicians.
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Plano Residents Keep Things Civil During Health Care Debate
from The Dallas Morning News, Aug. 19, 2009
A civil public debate about health care: Imagine that. No one threw chairs or protested as Plano residents joined the health care debate during a forum Tuesday put on by a statewide doctors group and a local medical practice.
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Area Agencies to Hold Health Care Forum
from The Tyler Morning Telegraph, Aug. 19, 2009
Smith County Medical Society officials are hoping for a good turnout Thursday at its "house call" -- a community forum that will explore issues associated with the health care reform debate. Officials are inviting patients, business leaders and elected officials to attend. The event is a joint effort between SCMS and the Texas Medical Association, who are sponsoring at least 14 forums across the state through Sept. 1.
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