Health
12/22/2025
Medicaid paid more than $207 million for dead people. A new law could help fix that
Posted 9:32 AM 12/23/2025 by FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicaid programs made more than $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who had already died, according to a new report from the independent watchdog for the Department of Health and Human Services.
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12/18/2025
With ACA subsidies set to expire, Texas Republicans in Congress remain hazy about path forward
Posted 4:49 PM 12/19/2025 by MARIJKE FRIEDMAN | THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
Most Republicans in the U.S. House agree they don’t want to extend expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits, but the party — including members from Texas — still has not coalesced around an alternative plan heading into a critical midterm year.
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12/17/2025
How cutting transgender instruction at Texas medical schools undermines health groups’ recommendations
Posted 9:25 AM 12/18/2025 by STEPHEN SIMPSON, TERRI LANGFORD AND LINDSEY BYMAN | THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
Kelly Marshall remembers a time when health providers in Texas treated transgender people like mental health patients, misdiagnosed them with other conditions, (More)
