Texas Insight provides timely reporting of healthcare issues and events as they occur within the legislative and regulatory branches of Texas state government.
Looking Ahead
- Conference Committee report on SB1
- May 20, 2021: This meeting will be webcast: Mental Health Condition and Substance Use Disorder Parity Workgroup (MHCSUD) Agenda
State and Federal Healthcare News
Texas
- “If you are vaccinated, go for it”: Large counties roll back some pandemic-era limits as COVID-19 deaths drop statewide
- Texas Senate agrees to House amendments on SB 8, sends it to the Governor
- Texas needs nurses: What is causing the shortage?
- Texas Senate resumes push to ban transition-related medical care for transgender children, days after bill failed in House
- New facility for children with autism celebrates grand opening in Round Rock
- Is it law yet? See how far some of the top bills have made it in the Texas Legislature
- Abbott cancels federal pandemic assistance for unemployed Texans
- Texas universities urge passage of funding bill for campus construction to train more medical students after pandemic
U.S.
- New Honor System on Masks: ‘Am I to Trust These People?’
- CDC: At least 600,000 kids 12 to 15 have received first COVID-19 vaccine dose
- Hospitals Serving The Poor Struggled During COVID. Wealthy Hospitals Made Millions
- For Migrant Children in Federal Care, a ‘Sense of Desperation’
- US task force recommends colon cancer screening starting at age 45
- Education Usually Improves Health. But Racism Sabotages The Benefits For Black Men
- ‘A Great Sense of Inspiration’: Anti-Abortion Activists Express Optimism
- House Democrats request FTC investigate AbbVie’s pricing of Humira
- It’s Time For America’s Fixation With Herd Immunity To End, Scientists Say
- In New Vaccination Push, Biden Leans on His ‘Community Corps’
- Facebook Calls Links To Teen Depression Inconclusive. These Researchers Disagree
- Schools in the U.S. should continue to use masks, the C.D.C. advises.
- Study shows nearly 100 percent develop COVID-19 antibodies after second shot
- Overwork Killed More Than 745,000 People In A Year, WHO Study Finds