Even with Texas’ low per capita funding level for mental health services, the state has developed a dynamic, community-based system to meet the state’s mental health needs. Nonetheless, this system could be improved further by moving towards greater privatization.
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...