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Ken Janda

CEO of Community Health Choice

Ken Janda is the CEO of Community Health Choice, a nonprofit HMO that serves Medicaid and CHIP enrollees in Southeast Texas and is part of the Harris Health System, the public hospital system in Harris County. He also teaches health care management at Rice University's Jones School of Business.

Latest Columns

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Texans deserve better than the Better Care Reconciliation Act

By Ken Janda, July 17, 2017

The revised BCRA is basically the same harmful bill with financial incentives for states like Alaska. Simply capping the amount the Feds pay into Medicaid doesn’t solve the problem — it just dumps costs on the states and on county taxpayers. And the amendment proposed by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is an awkward mixture of proposals that either can’t work or don’t help.

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Texas squanders $40 billion a year in taxpayer health care contributions

By Ken Janda, Oct. 13, 2016

A huge percentage of our tax dollars are wasted by state laws and policies we could fix here in Texas.

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A Texas-style Medicaid solution is still possible

By Ken Janda, Feb. 17, 2015

This is the year our state leaders must stand up against uninformed ideological shouting and support a way to extend health coverage to all eligible Texans.

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Why aren't we talking about health care?

By Ken Janda, Oct. 23, 2014

It was supposed to be the No. 1 election issue this year, but it quickly faded. With Ebola now dominating headlines, it’s time for a rational debate over what we should’ve been talking about all along: health coverage.