CBO Report: 22 Million Would Lose Insurance By 2026 Under The Better Care Reconciliation Act
CBO and JCT estimate that enacting the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 would reduce federal deficits by $321 billion over the coming decade and increase the number of people who are uninsured by 22 million in 2026 relative to…
Boycotts Over ‘Religious Freedom’ Bills Could Cost Texas Billions
June 26th, 2017By: Mark Richardson, Public News Service – TX AUSTIN, Texas — The predicted economic backlash against Texas has begun in protest of the state’s new laws that allow discrimination in the name of religious freedom. Last week, California banned official…
Texas Hospitals Fear Losing $6.2B Medicaid Deal
June 26th, 2017By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Texas rejected billions in federal aid to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, calling the program “broken.” But now it’s asking the Trump administration to renew a deal that’s brought the state an…
In The End, Even The Middle Class Would Feel GOP Squeeze On Nursing Home Care
June 26th, 2017By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News ORANGE, Va. — Alice Jacobs, 90, once owned a factory and horses. She raised four children and buried two husbands. But years in an assisted living facility drained her savings, and now she relies…
Eagle Pass Police Department Weekend Report
June 26th, 2017Friday, June 23, 2017 10:09 AM: Eagle Pass Police Officers responded to a motel business on South Texas Drive in reference to a suspicious person. Responding officers encountered an adult female outside the business near a garbage container who was…
Federal Jury Convicts Two Former Crystal City Officials on Bribery and Wire Fraud Charges
June 26th, 2017(Press Release) In Del Rio, Texas, on Monday, June 22, 2017, a federal jury convicted two former Crystal City, TX, officials for their roles in a bribery and kickback scheme which decimated city coffers announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin,…
U.S. Supreme Court tosses cross-border shooting case back to lower court
June 26th, 2017by Julián Aguilar and Cassandra Pollock, The Texas Tribune June 26, 2017 The nation’s highest court on Monday sent a case involving the cross-border shooting death of a Mexican teenager back to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals for reconsideration. That leaves the question of…
Deep Cuts To Medicaid Put Rural Hospitals In The Crosshairs
June 23rd, 2017By: Bram Sable-Smith, Side Effects Public Media For the hundreds of rural U.S. hospitals struggling to stay in business, health policy decisions made in Washington, D.C., this summer could make survival a lot tougher. Since 2010, at least 79 rural hospitals…
‘Coverage Gap’ For Poor May End, But Many Will Still Have Trouble Affording Plans
June 23rd, 2017By: Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Having long decried the failings of the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republicans are purporting to fix one of its loopholes with their newly unveiled health plan. The so-called coverage gap left more than 2.5 million…
Winners And Losers: 40 Is Old In Senate GOP Health Plan’s Subsidy Structure
June 23rd, 2017By: Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News People getting subsidies to help buy health insurance would see at least three sharp changes — tied to both age and income — that could dramatically affect how much they pay for coverage if the…
Trump administration weighs in on sanctuary cities court battle
June 23rd, 2017by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune June 23, 2017 The Trump administration has officially entered the courtroom battle over Senate Bill 4, Texas’ immigration-enforcement bill. On Friday, attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in the…
