Retired Texas Teachers Worried Health Care Costs Will Skyrocket « CBS Dallas quoting : CBS Dallas

Now, she's worried health care costs will give her a serious math problem. More than 260,000 retired teachers, custodians, and other support staff in Texas are facing the same situation. "We do need to make structural changes the way health care is provided. Bryant blames state lawmakers for going back on their promise to guarantee their health care. It's all because the fund for retired teachers and support staff, called TRS-Care, is facing a more than $1 billion dollar shortfall.




But health care is a sprawling subject. The next day, Celia Dugger, The Times's health and science editor, put the new team to work. So in January, health reporters and editors from across the paper were pulled together into a new team, led by Ms. Dugger, that's more reflective of how tightly the different threads of health care are knotted together. Kate Zernike, Abby Goodnough and Pam Belluck, members of The Times's new health care reporting team, which had formed only months earlier, had put together a piece that described the surprising history of Medicaid, a program that one in five Americans has come to rely on for health care. Ms. Goodnough and Ms. Zernike began reaching out to legislators who had opposed the bill to find out if the Medicaid cuts had played any role in their decision.

Some Republicans Think They May Have A Health Care Deal

In short, even though the Tuesday Group and the Freedom Caucus think they have a deal, Republicans writ large might have nothing. The Affordable Care Act is more popular than ever, and in a recent Pew Research Center poll, 54 percent of Americans said they trusted Democrats more than Republicans on health care, while just 35 percent said they trusted Republicans more. WASHINGTON ― GOP moderates and conservatives are nearing a deal on health care that in theory could get the Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act out of the House and over to the Senate. That's the biggest advantage for Democrats on health care since 2009. These changes are among the reasons that the Congressional Budget Office predicted the House health care legislation would increase the number of people without insurance by 24 million within a decade.


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