Texas Medicaid is fiscally unsound and medically inadequate. By federal law, the first state dollars expended must be for Medicaid spending, and all other state priorities must accept the leftovers. With Medicaid taking an ever-larger bite out of the Texas budget, policymakers are left with fewer opportunities to meet the needs of Texans, restrain spending, and provide tax relief.
The Sky Isn’t Falling: Dispelling Medicaid Disenrollment Hysteria
Once again, Texas’ Medicaid disenrollment is in the headlines and the mainstream media is turning to its usual scare tactics to paint Texas as the bad guy. As far back as September, The Texas Tribune ran a headline that 900,000 Texans have lost Medicaid, and painted a grim picture of children, new mothers, and disabled adults...