The Medicaid rider in SB 1 was added to prevent Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. However, the rider leaves the door to expansion open and should therefore be struck from SB 1.
The Sky Isn’t Falling: Dispelling Medicaid Disenrollment Hysteria
Once again, Texas’ Medicaid disenrollment is in the headlines and the mainstream media is turning to its usual scare tactics to paint Texas as the bad guy. As far back as September, The Texas Tribune ran a headline that 900,000 Texans have lost Medicaid, and painted a grim picture of children, new mothers, and disabled adults...