EDINBURG, March 26 - Hospitals in South Texas are battling with the Texas Conference of Urban Counties over how healthcare funding for the indigent poor is managed.

The hospitals would like to use taxpayer-generated county funds in order to leverage even more money from the federal governme

WACO, March 21 - While the Medicaid system and Affordable Care Act (ACA) are not perfect, they are key aspects of the current health care environment in which Texas must function. 

DALLAS, March 21 - When was the last time your health care costs went down?

HARLINGEN, March 14 - When legislators from other parts of Texas visited the Rio Grande Valley in late January, Israel Rocha, governmental affairs director at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, asked them to help hospitals in South Texas.

BROWNSVILLE, March 11 -  I am too old for this, I told myself, as the alarm chimed brightly at 3:25am.

McALLEN, March 5 - A community organizer says Gov. Rick Perry’s opposition to expanding Medicaid could be based on the fact that tens of thousands of people who would benefit live south of I-10 and are Hispanic.

EDINBURG, February 26 - Hidalgo County Commissioners Court has become the first governmental entity in the Rio Grande Valley to pass a resolution in support of expanding Medicaid to include coverage for adults.

SAN JUAN, February 26 - I am haunted by a hearing the Hidalgo County Medical Society had a few years ago when health care reform was first being discussed.

AUSTIN, February 26 - Texas is facing the biggest moral, economic, and human crisis in its modern history.

HARLINGEN, February 24 - The recent Valley Legislators Tour provided a rare opportunity to see and hear three top south Texas hospital executives discuss health care issues on the same panel.

AUSTIN, February 22 - At a rally at the state Capitol, Valley Interfaith leader Rosalie Tristan gave two personal healthcare stories to highlight the need for expanding Medicaid.

AUSTIN, February 13 - No one in 1966 – especially not a six-year-old boy growing up in Benavides, Texas, where so many owned a gun for sport and deer hunting – could avoid being forever seared by the black and white images running under Walter Cronkite's narration on the evening of August 1.

BROWNSVILLE, February 7 - In 2007, our community lost one of our finest and noblest neighbors to cancer. Joe Gallegos, father of five, had decided to drop his insurance so as to be able to cover his two boys, both of whom wanted to start to play football.

EDINBURG, January 10 - Doctors Hospital at Renaissance has named Dr. Carlos J. Cardenas as its interim chief executive officer.

LA JOYA, January 9 - Ask La Joya family practice physician Javier Saenz to sum up 2012 and he will tell you it was a nightmare.

BROWNSVILLE, December 29 - A legendary Brownsville physician has thrown his weight behind efforts to create a four-year medical school in the Rio Grande Valley.

McALLEN, December 13 - Reinstating the $140 deductible the State of Texas used to pay doctors for Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible patients will not solve the physician crisis in the Rio Grande Valley but it will help.

EDINBURG, November 29 - The potential “welcoming effect” of Obamacare will add hundreds of thousands of pre-eligible children in Texas to Medicaid within three years, a healthcare experts has predicted.

EDINBURG, November 25 - A key advisor to the RGV Equal Voice Network will be speaking at the UT Vista Summit at UT-Pan American on Wednesday.

AUSTIN, November 20 - A recent news item in the Rio Grande Guardian focuses on Texas Health and Human Services Commissioner Kyle Janek visiting South Texas.

AUSTIN, November 19 - It's really far past time for us to call ObamaCare what it truly is: an unprecedented government overreach into every American's life, forcing higher costs on individuals, practitioners, employers and state governments in lieu of actually fixing our health care system.