Magazine Story
The way the Texas Legislature conducts business during the 2021 session may look different due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the TMA’s commitment to improving health care remains the same. Some of those goals are up against deep cuts to state agency budgets. However, the pandemic has created opportunities for medicine to bend lawmakers’ ear on some of its longstanding goals, including advancing access to care, vaccines, health coverage, and telemedicine.
By Joey Berlin