Making Patients – and Sendero – Whole

Central Health aims for quality care and better finances for nonprofit health plan

"...save the Sendero Health Plans program, which provides health insurance coverage for about 24,000 Travis County residents, Central Health..."

Dec. 28, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

CHIPs Are Down

Millions of children could lose their health care, thanks to Congress

"...Care Act, Congress failed to renew the Child­ren's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) after last authorizing federal funding in 2015,..."

Nov. 3, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Reviving Austin's Cab Industry

ATX Co-op Taxi splits the difference between traditional taxis and ridesharing

"...But the majority of membership fees go to commercial insurance, which accounts for $53 of each driver's $131 weekly..."

April 28, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Cab Co-op Starts Its Engines

Union-backed franchise launches with 30 drivers

"...verified to the Chronicle that the co-op will have insurance. (Drivers with clean records expect to pay $53 per..."

Oct. 7, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Kitchen Scales

The cost of Austin fine dining

"...Wages are just one part of the equation. Health insurance at most restaurants is generally not offered, and in..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Uber-Disgruntled

Those cheap Uber fares aren't doing drivers much good

"...unprotected, and they worry about whether they're covered by insurance...."

Aug. 14, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Crash Course

Cabs try to survive in the era of Uber

"...and each driver pays self-employment taxes, as well as insurance and a variety of maintenance expenses. But they can..."

Aug. 7, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Council Considers Taxi Franchises

CM Kitchen gives cab co-op idea a boost

"...Chronicle. "We'll get the background checks and carry commercial insurance. We're not wanting to operate illegally, if we get..."

May 8, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Bill of the Week: HB 2470

Lawmakers try to regulate ammonium nitrate storage

"...by Austin Democrat Eddie Rodriguez, which would tighten the insurance requirements for ammonium nitrate storage facilities. Under the bill,..."

April 24, 2015 News Column by Richard Whittaker

Still Room in Obamacare

More time to get covered for those who didn't realize they'd have to pay a fee

"...the country, Americans who didn't sign up for health insurance in 2014 face the possibility of a fee –..."

March 13, 2015 News Feature by Tashanna Turner

TNCs: Disrupted Market, Disrupted Council

Council continues debate

"...TNC drivers have Uber and Lyft's highly publicized commercial insurance policies as commercial insurance any time they have the..."

Oct. 10, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Sym the Prole

A radical takes on the practical in the fight against HIV stigma

"...are a lot of people who still can't afford insurance, especially since Rick Perry turned down the Medicaid expansion..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Arts Feature by David Estlund

Davis Bops Abbott's Insider Deals

Davis finds new traction with a full-frontal assault on Abbott's ethics

"...Secretive corporations. Gouging insurance companies. Dangerous doctors. Accord­ing to Sen. Wendy Davis, her..."

Aug. 8, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Comedian Chris Cubas Gets His 'Movie Interruption' On

The stand-up star leaves Austin for the Alamo Drafthouse Kansas City

"...AC: It's a good package, with insurance and all that?..."

Nov. 4, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Egg & I

How an experimental treatment for major depression introduced me to the medical magnet and the return of 'energetic' medicine

"...first try TMS. The trouble was the cost. My insurance provider, Aetna, refused to cover the treatment, calling it..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Greg Harman

Early Warning: The Lege is Coming!

Tribune Fest offers a taste of things to come

"...conditions, and so on. Deuell responded that having health insurance is not the same as having health care, and..."

Sept. 26, 2012 News Post by Michael King

Abbott Balks at Birth Control Mandate

Calling the mandate unconstitutional, 10 AGs threaten to sue

"...of the health care law that would require most insurance plans to cover birth control without a co-pay, Texas..."

Feb. 17, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Hightower Report

Hiding Behind the Hedge; and Ryan Peddling a Raw Deal

"...If you were being hustled to buy an insurance policy, would you trust a salesman who said, "Let's..."

May 20, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

He's Not in Wisconsin Anymore

Director Miguel Arteta on his bumpkin-in-the-big-city comedy Cedar Rapids

"...Rapids. And that's a good thing, because Lippe, an insurance salesman played by Ed Helms in his first leading..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

The State of the State, Sanders lawsuit, and more

"...system, but he refuses to support the kinds of insurance reform that will help Texas families." – Richard Whittaker..."

Feb. 11, 2011 News Feature

Point Austin: Fed Up Yet?

Republican politicians propose pulling Texas out of Medicaid

"...dropping out of both Medicaid and the Child­ren's Health Insurance Program, and asked what would happen to those children...."

Nov. 12, 2010 News Column by Michael King

The Hightower Report

Pouting Political Funders; and Nutty for Health Care

"...equivocating, establishment-appeasing policies on such huge issues as health insurance reform, the Wall Street bailout, and the escalation of..."

Jan. 1, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Media Bosses Get It Bassackwards; and Goofing Up Health Care Reform

"...illnesses: killed. The provision to include a not-for-profit public insurance option to increase competition, provide consumer choice, and keep..."

Oct. 23, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore wants to know where our money went.

"...moneymaking venture. The film looks at a particularly odious insurance policy called “dead peasants insurance,” in which some corporations..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Smith Prescribes a Spoonful of Tort Reform

Lamar Smith calls for tort reform in the health care bill

"...enough demonstration. Dr. Howard Marcus, chair of medical and insurance industry pressure group the Texas Alliance for Patient Access,..."

Sept. 25, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

American Health Care Has Been Turned Upside Down

"...while coverage shrinks. And every year, less of our insurance premiums actually pay for health care and more pay..."

Sept. 14, 2009 Postmarks

McMoldy High School?

For one McCallum High student, every day is a sick day

"...later reduced to $4 million – against Farmers Health Insurance for mold intrusion in her home. Ballard's family suffered..."

July 10, 2009 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

The Hightower Report

Republicans on Health Care; and Wall Street's Gas-Pump Robbery

"...When it comes to altering the power of the insurance giants to control our health-care options, the Republican position..."

July 3, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

One Serious Illness Away; and The Union-Made Miracle

"...but middle-class, well-educated people, 75% of whom had health insurance! As one of the researchers, Dr. David Himmelstein, put..."

June 26, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Session Ends With Finger-Pointing, Unfinished Business

Perry says he has no immediate plans to call legislators back to Austin

"...How many had a problem? "Most of them," House Insurance Committee Chair John Smithee, R-Amarillo, said glumly...."

June 5, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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