On the heels of a stunning victory for Austin schoolchildren – the citizen vote approving $370 million in bonds for school improvements – comes an […]
Health Care Policy Articles
“HMOs investing in tobacco industry represents conflict of values
Texas Nursing [Vol. 69, No. 8, p. 3], September 1, 1995
A December 21, 1994 Wall Street Journal article described how the health maintenance organization (HMO) industry had amassed so much cash – 9 billion dollars […]
Tort Reform: the $3 million coffee spill
Texas Nursing [Vol. 69, No. 3, p. 2], April 1, 1995
Tort reform is high on the agenda of both the Congress and the Texas Legislature. Big business says that American juries are out of control […]
Austin must work to keep Brackenridge
Austin American-Statesman, March 25, 1995
As a member of the Brackenridge Evaluation Team, an activist in community affairs, and a practicing nurse at Seton since 1979, I am in full […]
Hospital merger risky
Austin American-Statesman, October 26, 1994
The recently announced $5 billion stock-swap merger between the nation’s two largest for-profit hospital chains, Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. and HealthTrust Inc., makes Columbia the biggest […]
U.S. Medical Needs Extend Past Physicans
Austin American-Statesman, January 17, 1994
With the above-the-fold Dec. 26 editorial entitled “Health care reform should draw doctors toward primary care”, the Austin American-Statesman joined the national chorus of plaintive […]
Nursing not the place for hospitals to cut costs
Austin American-Statesman, November 16, 1993
The lead article in the Statesman’s Oct. 31 Business section about the problems facing Seton and its new CEO, Charles Barnett, really hit home. The […]
Nursing is nursing, not doctoring
The Wall Street Journal, September 23, 1993
Having practiced neonatal nursing for the past 13 years, I am continuously frustrated by this nation’s ability to cure 500-gram infants vis-à-vis its glaring inability […]
Empowerment of Advanced Practice Nurses: Regulation Reform Needed to Increase Access to Care
The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics [Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 193-205], February 1, 1993
[This policy article appeared in this law journal the same year that Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Task Force on National Health Care Reform met. Task force […]
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