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.
Economy
2019-20 LEGISLATOR’S GUIDE TO THE ISSUES
A comprehensive guide to the most important issues facing Texas during the 86th Session of the Legislature. Among the issues covered in this Guide are education, taxes and spending, health care, effective justice, private property rights, insurance, telecommunications, transportation, tort reform, energy, and natural resources.
September 7, 2018