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Rural hospitals in Texas get leeway on hiring, and Rep. Jim Pitts sounds alarm on Medicaid funding: Health care news today
Friday, May 13, 2011, 10:43AM CST
By Mark Lisheron
taking medicine

Gov. Rick Perry signs into law a change to allow hospitals in rural counties to employ their own doctors; House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jim Pitts sounds again a Texas Watchdog alarm on the precarious financial future of Medicaid in Texas; and a good national overview of Medicaid funding in today’s reading.

Rural hospitals may hire physicians - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Texas schools, Medicaid broke by 2013? - Houston Chronicle

Update on federal Medicaid funding - National Center For Policy Analysis

Romney defends state's health plan - Wall Street Journal

McConnell demands spending cuts, Medicare overhaul for deal on debt limit - The Washington Post
 
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