Tagged - Medicaid expansion
This post was written by Kamia Rathore and it’s CPPP’s second post in our Countdown to Coverage series. Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect, the number of uninsured veterans has dropped nationally. This trend has filtered down to Texas, but our state still has about 72,000 veterans who lack insurance—meaning Texas has the highest number of […]
We’re excited to launch a new campaign today to give YOU another way to stand up for uninsured Texans! Right now in Texas, there are moms who have cancer but can’t get the treatment they need. Dads who can’t pay for their depression medication. Child care teachers, construction workers, and cooks one wrong step away from […]
As the Legislature prepares to address the expiring 1115 Medicaid Waiver, and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee holds a hearing Tuesday on the Waiver, let’s take a look at what’s at stake for the state and for your county. With the stopgap Waiver extension expiring in 15 months, the state must craft a Texas plan to expand […]
You already know that by turning down federal Medicaid expansion funding our state leaders are making line cooks and child care teachers sicker, making families poorer, and making our economy weaker. A new report by the Center for Public Policy Priorities now shows that if our state leaders don’t take action on health care in 2017, […]
A Texas Senate Committee travelling the state to discuss property tax reform is hearing loud and clear that accepting Medicaid expansion funding should be part of their strategy, and now they’ve received a response to many of the questions and comments they’ve offered during those hearings. Medicaid expansion supporters raised the issue at the Committee hearing in […]
We get a lot of “numbers” questions: about uninsured Texans, and Texas Medicaid, and about how many could get covered if our state accepted federal dollars allocated to cover our low-income adults. One challenge is that the numbers keep changing over time. This blog post launches our latest updated estimates of the number of uninsured […]
“I just have a passion for pregnant women,” says Jennifer Johnson. The Central Texas community health worker explains, “I’m usually in a mom’s life for less than two years, including her pregnancy and the first year of her baby’s life, but those two years set them on track for the rest of their lives.” Those […]
New Poll Confirms Texans Want State Leaders to Accept Medicaid Expansion Funding A new survey confirms that Texans believe their neighbors should have an affordable health insurance option. The Houston Chronicle and other media outlets recently reported that 63 percent of Texans agree with the Texas business groups, doctors, faith leaders, and others who want state leaders […]
It looks like Texas leaders might be on the clock to get the state’s health care system in line with the new way of doing business across the country. For several years, the federal government has sent billions of dollars to Texas and other states to help with the unpaid hospital bills left behind by […]
The costs of Texas’ inaction—not moving ahead with a plan for health care coverage and accepting federal Medicaid Expansion funds available to our state—are mounting with the passage of time. Experts estimate Texas is currently losing around $6 billion a year in federal dollars for health care because we have not closed our Texas Coverage Gap. On top […]
