Federal Medicaid mandates take the first and biggest bite out of the Texas budget, taking priority over all other state spending – If Texas controlled Texas Medicaid, it could provide better care to patients, reduce inefficiencies, and improve reimbursements to providers. Federal funding formula for Medicaid encourages spending, not saving.
Health Care
Medicaid reform in Texas can help more than 400,000 children get coverage
Despite what seems like an unrelenting flow of disagreements on political and public policy issues, it is important we come together to solve important problems — especially when it involves the most vulnerable among the next generation. While our organizations, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and Texans Care for Children, do not always agree on every policy issue, we do...
September 22, 2022