HB 61: Relating to the applicability of adverse licensing, listing, or registration decisions by certain health and human services agencies.
SJR 6: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the state to expand eligibility for the Medicaid program to certain persons.
— “Despite a shortage of U.S. primary care doctors, less than 25 percent of new doctors go into this field, and fewer still work in rural areas, researchers say…Lead study author Dr. Candice Chen, an assistant research professor of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, said the study also found only 4.8 percent of the new primary care physicians set up shop in rural areas.” – UPI
— The Texas Tribune published an interactive map of the regional distribution of $3.2 billion for federal-approved projects and the percent of each uninsured region.
— The Associated Press reports that Arizona will expand Medicaid to implement the health care reform law.
