Special Bills for a Special Session

UPDATE: Measures mix unfinished business, new ideas, grandstanding

"...To consider legislation relating to healthcare cost containment, access to services through managed care, and..."

May 31, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Lege Wrap-Up

Health care

"...with improvements in workplace safety. Complicating matters, the Lege managed to have three different bodies looking at the same..."

June 3, 2005 News Feature

About AIDS

"...Medicaid Should Care for HIV Disease Before AIDS..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column by Sandy Bartlett

Going Non-Public

"...as well as state money that pays for the care of the children that the state places in the..."

Sept. 27, 1996 News Feature

Assisted Suicide?

The Demise of the Clinics

"...Slusher, and protegés of the creed that public health care for indigents should be government orthodoxy. The battleground: the..."

Aug. 2, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

Austin at Large: Be Thankful for What We’ve Got

Sometimes, the grinding slog of government bears tasty fruit

"...response to the failings of our broken national health care system, making access to care possible for hundreds of..."

Nov. 29, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Politics Feature

"...million children she claimed were not getting adequate medical care that should have been provided through Medicaid -- the..."

Sept. 22, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...The challenge of providing high-quality health care services to the poor in the face of managed-care..."

Jan. 1, 1999 News Feature

Stranded

Karen Bernstein's 'Are the Kids Alright?' examines the state of mental health care in Texas

"...In the past, Antonia's episodic illness was managed well by various social service outreach treatment programs, including..."

July 9, 2004 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Top Austin Headlines of 2021: Abortion? No! Frivolous Lawsuits? Sure!

September 1: SB 8 goes into effect, prohibiting abortion care after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected (around six weeks)

"...civil suits against anyone who "aids or abets" abortion care, with a $10,000 bounty for successful plaintiffs...."

Dec. 17, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

The Hightower Report: Why Is Trump Hostile to Actual Facts?

Take the Trumpcare lie, for example

"...a thick layer of subterfuge? Answer: the fiasco called Trumpcare...."

April 7, 2017 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

Putting the brakes on the Star+Plus HMO

"...2292, would shift 2.6 million Medicaid patients into a managed care network. Like many measures in HB 2292, which..."

Feb. 25, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Austin at Large: Look What We Made Them Do

So, why do these creeps care so much about other people’s abortions, anyway?

"...can safely assume are spurious if not downright disturbing, care about this issue, this saga, this storyline, this great..."

May 6, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Paxton Bans State Employees From Donating Pay to Planned Parenthood

But they can still donate to an anti-choice group

"...When anti-choice politicians passed a law last legislative session..."

Jan. 13, 2020 News Post by Mary Tuma

Letters at 3AM: James Hillman (1926-2011)

Remembering James Hillman

"...of his stature? Since American therapists succumbed to so-called "managed care," no such figure has appeared. The geniuses of..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Lege Lines – The Texas Legislature: Not Enron

Passing a state budget when one side’s “cooking the books”

"...how severely the Senate budget would underfund education, health care, public safety, and other services."..."

March 31, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Travis Co. selects finalists for the hospital district board

"...Commissioners selected Tom Young, a semiretired health care consultant and former Brackenridge Hospital administrator; Frank Rodriguez, CEO..."

July 23, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...was not an arbitration reform bill, but rather a managed care prompt-pay reform bill. Second, Sen. Van de Putte..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Column

Naked City

John Cornyn says he believes in privacy, but a subpoena of Texans for Public Justice seeking donor records suggests otherwise.

"...agency had pending against two Aetna companies: Aetna U.S. Healthcare Inc., and Aetna Health Plans of North Texas Inc...."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Easy Money

City plots downtown's retail future

"...has pending lawsuits against two Aetna entities: Aetna U.S. Healthcare Inc., and Aetna Health Plans of North Texas Inc...."

March 31, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Mobile Home Motif

Channeling Time Warner

"...This Week in Council: A managed care contract worth $9 million will be considered in..."

Oct. 9, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff

Chris Jericho: From Y2J to 'Sin and Bones'

WWE superstar on touring and the next big things in wrestling and metal

"...That makes Chris Jericho one lucky bastard, because he's managed both. In his day job he's a top star..."

Aug. 14, 2012 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Upfront Aftermath: CBS & the CW

More peeks at what what's coming to prime time

"...After a little poking around, I managed to view clips of CBS’s new fall series. But..."

May 19, 2011 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

The Daily Hustle: 12/13/10

2010's final City Council meeting

"...How on earth the Hustle managed to make it through another year of City Council..."

Dec. 13, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Talking Travis: Eddie Rodriguez

The district 51 rep talks fresh priorities and fresh fruit

"...like every lawmaker he’s taking stock of what he’s managed and what there’s still time to fix. In many..."

May 13, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Queens of the Realm (or Part II: The Coronation)

Ushering in a new monarchy at the United Court of Austin.

"...at more than 3'3" ( perhaps 4'3"), yet still managed to tower high above the realm over which she..."

Aug. 18, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

"This Is a Contested Campaign"

Live blogging: Obama and Clinton spar tonight in Ohio

"...be parsed by critics as much as their health care plans. 8.28pm: If there were any doubts, it's the..."

Feb. 26, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Cute Band Alert!

Times New Viking's lo-fi nostalgia.

"...precursor to a semi-intelligible Half Japanese cover that still managed to sound like them. “It’s a half Half Japanese..."

April 9, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Who Wants to Be a Theatre Geek?

A quiz to find out who knows what about theatre in Austin.

"...4. When he isn't spinning fascinating monologues relating managed care and millennium bugs to our emotional and spiritual..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...8. The Cost of Living Trilogy: Free Trade, Managed Care, Millennium Bug (Frontera@Hyde Park, 1994-99)..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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