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.
Health Care
Let’s fix healthcare costs before the socialists try to do it
The reason people are flirting with the idea of socialism is simply that the costs of healthcare and housing are too high and Congress is not solving it. Those in power get the blame. With the seeming internal take-over of the Democratic Party by the Democratic Socialists of America, the promises of quick fixes by...
September 28, 2026