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Tomlinson: America's health care system flails again, focused on profit over patients FacebookTwitterEmail 1of9 People wait in a line for a COVID-19 vaccine shot Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, near the Bayou City Event Center in Houston.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 2of9 Carmen Acosta, 86, rests as she waits in line for a COVID-19 vaccine shot with her son Robert, right, and husband Luis Acosta, 91, in back seat, on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, near the Bayou City Event Center in Houston. The son said they had been waiting about 45 minutes.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicl...

Tomlinson: America’s health care system flails again, focused on profit over patients By Chris Tomlinson, Staff writer Profit-driven companies and private partnerships have proven once again they cannot solve the U.S. health care system’s problems. Or maybe it’s just more profitable to leave things alone. Texans spent the weekend hitting redial or refresh to get an appointment for a dose of COVID-19 vaccine. They discovered a complicated, disjointed, illogical and unfair process that perfectly reflects how all health care is delivered in this country. Begin with the phar...

'Nothing smooth about this': Texas' coronavirus vaccine rollout is confusing almost everyone FacebookTwitterEmail Ora Lee Mair, 92, of the Morningside Ministries Assisted Living Facility receives a shot from pharmacist Gabriela Alfaro.Matthew Busch / Contributor AUSTIN — Rep. Michelle Beckley, D-Carrollton, doesn’t get any special access to the coronavirus vaccine just because she’s a state official. A pre-existing condition makes her more susceptible to the virus, and that puts her in group 1B, the second tier of people on the state’s priority list for getting the vaccine. Her prior...

Vaccines arrive at some but not all long-term care facilities FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Eldon Webb, 95, a resident at Morningside Ministries Assisted Living Facility will receive the COVID-19 vaccination at his nursing home on Tuesday.Matthew Busch /For The San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Webb, seen outside his nursing home at the Morningside Ministries Assisted Living Facility.Matthew Busch /For The San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Eldon Webb, 95, a resident at Morningside Ministries Assisted Living Facility will receive the COVID-19 vaccination at the nursing ...