Chalk up one more casualty to the Texas GOP lawmakers' divisive agenda this legislative session: a state agency that would have worked to solve health.
Democratic lawmakers wanted to replace a defunded agency by creating a new office that would look at health inequities across the state. But after Republicans pulled it into ongoing debates about transgender rights and critical race theory, the bill died in the Senate.
Medical students are helping Sacramento-area residents to get vaccinated, streamlining the process of vaccination while offering care that’s grounded in an understanding of patients’ ethnic backgrounds.
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by Devon Green, VAHHS Vice President of Government Relations Have you ever done a hike with a false peak? You think you’ve reached the top only to realize there is more to climb. The end of the legislative session is in sight now that legislators have been assigned to a conference committee to hammer out the remaining differences between the House and the Senate on the budget bill, but with talk of a veto session and a possible October session to determine spending of federal funds, the view from mid-May could be more mountain.