Back again with health care resources for Texas. (Ohio NDs should scroll down a bit).
Health care policy is a central issue in the Democratic primary this year, especially in Texas which as one of the highest uninsured rates in the country. To help cover the issue, PRX has some pre-game for programmers in Texas:
SERIES: Barack Obama Addresses Health Care
SERIES: Hillary Clinton Addresses Health Care
These two collections pull together and organize audio from the candidates in order to help stations parse the main policy differences. Newsrooms of all sizes can work this audio into their newscast in a number of ways. Heres some thoughts:
- Audio to hang vox around for a pulse of Texas package
- Bumpers or conversation starters for call-in shows
- Promos for election night coverage
- Reporter packages that analyze the issues facing Texans
If this last one is for you, I have some more resources to help out:
- Texas has almost six million uninsured people who increase premiums for insured Texans by more than $1500 a year. So says the Texas Health Institute in their report A Vision for Change: Policy Solutions for Increasing Health Coverage in Texas. THI is a non-partisan research center that is not making endorsements and is happy to give interviews to the press. Camille Miller can be reached at 512-279-3904 or cmiller@texashealthinstitute.org.
- Anne Dunkelberg helps run the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin which has a number of Texas related health links here. She is best reached through the press officer Lynsey Kluever at 512-320-0222, ext. 112 or at dunkelberg@cppp.org.
- Lastly, Rae Lynn Mitchell runs press for Texas A&M’s School of Rural Public Health and has a dozen or so different researchers versed in public health policy who can speak generally about each candidate’s health care plan as it relates to rural Texas. Rae Lynn can be reached at 979-862-2419 or rlmitchell@srph.tamhsc.edu. NOTE: reporters should know the school’s dean is a longtime Clinton pal and worked in President Clinton’s administration.
Happy hunting!