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• Missed opportunities in the 84th Texas Legislature

  Tags: legislature, legislative update, 84th, medicaid, banning, medicare, graduate medical education, nelson, zerwas, residency, family medicine residency program, higher education, primary care coalition, texas medical association, preceptorship, bonnen, hancock, direct primary care, schwrtner, crownover, prescription, drug abuse, substance abuse, darby, yogi

  Tuesday, June 2, 2015 4:26:00 PM

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  By Tom Banning
  TAFP CEO/EVP

  Yogi Berra famously said I hate making predictions, especially about the future. It’s particularly painful when those predictions come true as was the case for many of the predictions TAFP made at the outset of the 84th Texas Legislature on how health care issues would fare this session.

  Playing to their primary voters, the House and Senate focused attention almost solely on tax cuts, border security, transportation, when and where you can carry a gun, and a host of other mostly inconsequential partisan ideas.

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• The clock is winding down on the Texas Legislature

  Tags: legislative update, legislature, 84th, budget, medicaid, medicare, affordable care act, residency, graduate medical education, nelson, zerwas, family medicine residency program, preceptorship, bonnen, hancock, schwertner, crownover, direct primary care

  Wednesday, May 27, 2015 3:45:00 PM

  The clock is winding down on the Texas Legislature

  posted 5.27.15

  With less than a week left in the 84th Texas Legislature, many bills TAFP has been tracking have passed the House and the Senate … more