In recent years, state lawmakers have experienced pressure to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), however they have yet to do so. Expansion would add an estimated 1.5 million Texans to the program, extending eligibility to non-disabled adults, both with and without dependents. The groups pushing for expansion hope to pull down billions in federal funding, which would reimburse the state at 100% of the cost of coverage for the expansion population until 2017, then gradually reduce the rate to 90% by 2020.
Texas Has the Tools to Protect Health Data. Now We Just Need the Political Will.
Filled with anticipation, a woman in her early 30s downloads a fertility-tracking app. She and her husband are finally ready to start their young family and have a baby. Every morning she logs her cycle, her basal temperature, her symptoms. She grants the app access to her Apple Health data because the onboarding screen says...