This fact sheet outlines salient features of the state's Medicaid program as it now stands, and is made available to elected officials and the public as a resource to facilitate discussion about viable, long-term solutions to help save Texas Medicaid.
Health Care
Personal responsibility added to Medicaid builds on previous welfare reform
In the run-up to President Bill Clinton’s transformation — not simply reform — of welfare, opponents predicted dire consequences such as people dying in the streets of starvation, low-income families driven deeper into poverty, low-wage individuals, especially single mothers, never finding jobs, healthy children turned sickly and driven into foster care. These warnings made great headlines, sold...
August 16, 2018