As the Legislature prepares to meet in 2007, it is likely that state employee health insurance will again require new money to keep pace with current benefit levels and increased costs. This growth is within the state’s control if it introduces consumer-driven health care models, sharing both cost and savings with state employees.
How Tinslee’s Story Helped Change Texas’s 10-Day Rule
In 2019, a mother faced a heart-wrenching dilemma. According to the letter she held in her hand, she had to find another hospital willing to treat her infant daughter, Tinslee Lewis, within 10 days—or Tinslee was going to die. This dilemma arose because the intensity of Tinslee’s treatment and unfavorable prognosis from Cook Children’s Medical...