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
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...
July 24, 2026