Health Care How Middlemen and Hidden Kickbacks Inflate Healthcare Costs This is the time of year employers, local governments, employees, and individuals are looking at their healthcare renewals and expect double digit insurance premium increases for 2027. This pours fuel onto the fire of a healthcare system in crisis. Renewal notices often arrive at the last minute so CFOs and HR directors do not have... September 23, 2026
Higher Education Safe Schools and Fair Standards Safe Schools and Fair Standards Key points: Texas’s higher education code is not aligned with Supreme Court precedent on the correct standards for defining harassment. Texas statute does not define what makes conduct “severe,” “persistent,” or “pervasive.” The existing legal framework should remain intact but needs updated definitions that protect both free speech and students... September 28, 2026
Health Care Democrats’ Shutdown Surrender A Gift To Trump And Congressional Republicans The longest government shutdown in American history, 40 days of furloughed feds and finger-pointing, whimpered to an end Sunday night. Eight Senate Democrats, weary of their own party’s lack of a credible path to victory, crossed the aisle to hand Republicans a clean win, invoking cloture on a House funding bill by the slimmest of... November 11, 2025