- Continue development of telehealth to improve delivery of quality care at a fraction of the cost
- Increase the number of school-based clinics to deliver pediatric/ family health care in close proximity to education.
- Limit Medicaid funding cuts.
- Incorporate more funding for intergenerational health services within the Medicaid program.
- Automatically enroll women aging out of Medicaid onto the HTW program.
- Maintain funding for Graduate Medical Education primary care through the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
- Maintain funding for the Healthy Texas Women and Family Planning programs, which provide women with preventive health services, including well-woman exams, contraceptives, cancer screenings, and treatment for illnesses such as hypertension and diabetes.
- Improve access to long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs).
- Improve data collection and analysis on women’s health to clarify understanding of the incidence of maternal mortality and to guide our e orts to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity.
- Improve the general health of women by increasing access to primary health services in as many ways as possible, including optimizing the use of the Texas Medicaid program.
- Preserve funding for mental health care across the state of Texas.
- Utilize more integrated behavioral health models to provide both mental and physical health care
- Utilization of telemedicine to make mental health care more accessible.
- Maintain Graduate Medical Education funding to continue the pipeline of trainees providing mental health to future Texans. Continue to grow the loan repayment program, an evidence-based program to bring more mental health providers to the underserved Texas population.
- Implement/ fund school-based mental health services.
- Address the opioid crisis and all substance abuse in Texas.
- Extend Medicaid for Pregnant Women coverage to one-year post-childbirth while HTW becomes more established among Texas providers.
- Broaden coverage within HTW to cover more comprehensive care for perinatal mood disorders such as postpartum anxiety and postpartum psychosis.
- Expand care options for patients with perinatal mood disorders.
- Implement primary prevention strategies in high-risk youth including interventions in the foster care system.
- Improve healthcare access and funding for human trafficking victims by establishing a medical home.
- Set aside convictions of victims of human trafficking for non-violent crimes committed as a direct result of trafficking.
- Have districts develop a locally determined school recess policy and establish a state working group for best practice guidelines on recess.
- Implement comprehensive wellness reform in Texas schools.
- Reimburse health care providers for lifestyle/ obesity counseling.
- Reverse 2017 legislation that prevents healthcare providers from immunization children in temporary foster care.
- Increase education and access to cancer-preventing vaccines such as the HPV vaccine.
- Increase access to adult immunizations.
- Make improvements to the Texas immunization registry.
- Provide rates of unvaccinated children in schools and school districts to assist parental choice.
- Designate hospitals and clinics as safe spaces.
- Ensure proper treatment of children at the Texas border.
- Address the healthcare worker shortage through an expedited process for credentialing individuals who completed medical training abroad.