Health Care Articles

Impeachment? Nation could use Barbara Jordan’s wisdom

The Dallas Morning News, October 4, 1998

[This commentary was also published in the Austin American-Statesman, the Atlanta Journal & Constitution and the Houston Chronicle.] Barbara Jordan’s candle burned out in January […]

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A capital way to serve the poor

The Wall Street Journal, February 2, 1998

[This letter to the editor was in response to a Wall Street Journal feature article critical of the Daughters of Charity for having large financial […]

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AISD must retain its registered nurse staff

Austin American-Statesman, June 6, 1996

On the heels of a stunning victory for Austin schoolchildren – the citizen vote approving $370 million in bonds for school improvements – comes an […]

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“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 […]

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Serving the public

The Wall Street Journal, July 5, 1995

Having attended the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin, I take exception to the June 7 lead article decrying the perceived liberal bent of […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Thank you, Dr. Kay

Journal of Perinatology [Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 56-7], January 1, 1994

When I was a girl, I dreamed of becoming a nurse and working with Dr. Albert Schweitzer to relieve human suffering and sickness in the […]

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