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Low-Income Texas Women Lack Access to Health Care

A Texas judge has officially denied Planned Parenthood’s request to be allowed to offer health services to low-income women in Texas through a state program. The result is that there are a lot of low-income women in Texas who now have no access to women’s health care. This is part of a long, long, story. This all started in February of 2012, when Texas Health and Human Services Commissioner, Tom Seuhs, signed a law that was designed to specifically exclude Planned Parenthood from receiving any of the funding that is earmarked for the Medicaid Women’s Health Program (WHP). At the … Continue reading →

Texas Genealogy Resources

The state of Texas has the nickname “The Lone Star State”. Are you searching for more information about your ancestors who once lived in Texas? This blog has links to helpful Texas genealogy resources. The answers you seek might be hiding within at least one of them. Cyndi’s List might be the most comprehensive list of genealogy resources online. If it exists somewhere on the internet then Cyndi’s List probably has a link to it. They have a page called “United States – Texas”. Select one of the many categories to search through. Some categories include: “Birth, Marriage, Death”, “Census”, … Continue reading →

Texas About to Change Rules for WHP

Starting in November of 2012, there will be new rules for the Texas Women’s Health Care Program (WHP). It is part of the Medicaid program. The new rules will further limit the amount of health care that low income women can receive coverage for. This is tragic news for low income women in Texas. Medicaid is usually funded by both the federal government and the government of an individual state. The state of Texas, however, lost their federal funding for the Women’s Health Care program (WHP), after it decided to specifically exclude Planned Parenthood from receiving funding through that program. … Continue reading →

Free Genealogy Events in Texas, California, and Indiana

Genealogy workshops, event, classes, and webinars can be fun. It makes it even nicer when these types of events are free to attend. Here are a few of the genealogy events that will be happening this week, and that won’t cost you any money if you wanted to check them out. On September 4, 2012, The Trinity Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall, which is located in San Angelo, Texas, will hold a meeting of the San Angelo Genealogical and Historical Society. The guest speaker will be James Hawkins, who is the director of public services for the Texas General Land Offices … Continue reading →

Parents of Kids With Special Needs in Texas Leaving Public Schools

In Texas, a growing number of parents of children who have special needs have decided to opt-out of having their child attend the public schools. This is largely due to the sheer frustration that parents are feeling from their attempts to have their children’s needs met at the public schools. How do you choose which school to send your child to? This decision making process is one that all parents have to go through. Parents of children who have special needs in Texas are leaving the public school system. They are finding the lack of resources available to students who … Continue reading →

Free Genealogy Events in Texas, Delaware, and Mississippi

Have you ever attended a genealogy workshop, class, course, or event? It can be really fun to get together with a group of other genealogists and learn something new about genealogy. It is possible to find fun genealogy events that are free to attend. Here are some free genealogy events. On August 28, 2012, the Stephens Central Library, which is located in San Angelo, Texas, will hold a free Genealogy Fair. It will include 45 exhibits that feature historical and genealogical organizations. There will be door prizes that include subscriptions to Ancestry.com and Fold3.com, a membership to SAGHS, and coupons … Continue reading →

Court of Appeals Allows Texas to Cut WHP Funding to Planned Parenthood

A Court of Appeals has ruled that the state of Texas can go ahead and cut WHP funding from Planned Parenthood clinics. The judges have lifted a temporary injunction that would have allowed the funding to continue until a lawsuit in October of 2012 had been heard. Legislators in the state of Texas clearly don’t care much at all about the health of the low-income women in their state. They have worked so hard to make it incredibly difficult for women who cannot afford to purchase a private health plan to receive women’s health care. There is still a Medicaid … Continue reading →

Kids in Texas Might be Covered by CHIP

Every state has a Medicaid program. A portion of that program covers children who come from low-income families. In Texas, this program is called Children’s Medicaid, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Medicaid, no matter which population it covers, is a public, or government run form of health insurance. It is designed to cover families and individuals who are low-income, and who cannot afford to purchase health insurance from a private company. The funding for Medicaid comes from both the federal government and the government of an individual state. In Texas, there is a program called CHIP or Children’s … Continue reading →

The Texas Women’s Health Program Still Exists

The Texas Women’s Health Program is part of the Medicaid program in Texas. Legislators in Texas did an efficient job of gutting the program, but some of it still exists. Women who qualify will have difficultly finding a doctor who works with this program, and the state won’t cover care done at Planned Parenthood. Medicaid is a public, or government run, form of health insurance. It is designed to provide health insurance to people who are low-income and who cannot afford to buy health insurance from a private company. Typically, Medicaid programs like the Texas Women’s Health Program would be … Continue reading →

The State of Texas Didn’t Expand its Medicaid Program

The state of Texas was in the news when Governor Rick Perry announced that he will not expand the state’s Medicaid program. It isn’t easy to find eligibility requirements for Medicaid in Texas from the state’s websites. I’ve been writing a series of blogs that give details about the eligibility requirements for Medicaid in individual states. Several states make it really easy to find out this vital information. Texas, however, is among the states that make it extremely difficult for a person to find out if he or she is eligible for Medicaid. You pretty much have to apply online, … Continue reading →