Potential family planning cuts in Texas would reduce access to reproductive care for undocumented women

Later this month, the Texas Senate is expected to vote on the 2012-13 $164.5 billion budget that passed the House earlier this month.The House version includes $60 million cuts to family planning services.

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Tort Reform Unlikely to Cut Health Care Costs

Amid the obstructionists’ claims that health care reform is “socialist” or a means of speeding Grandma towards her deathbed, a large focus of the conservative position on health care reform has been that frivolous lawsuits drive up health care costs and require doctors to practice “defensive medicine” that’s costly and More…