Texas Republicans rarely talk about their opposition to Medicaid expansion these days, but a 32-year-old think tank—the Texas Public Policy Foundation—proudly promotes their position any ...

Bottom line: Federal health reforms will have a tremendous impact on the state budget, Medicaid and the state’s primary care network, regardless of the expansion. Although Texas would need to ...

Texas Republicans have opposed Medicaid expansion for years. Back in 2015, Gov. Greg Abbott said “Medicaid expansion is wrong for Texas,” writing in a news release that the program is ...

Medicaid expansion, encouraged by the Affordable Care Act, has helped reduce the percentage of uninsured, lowering it from 17.8% in 2010 to 10.9% by 2019. But supply didn’t rise to meet the ...

Health & Medicine Texas Refuses to Expand Medicaid. Here’s What We’re Missing Out On. These benefits could be ours, if the Lege would just help insure a million more Texans.

Texas Sen. Nathan Johnson, D-Dallas, filed a bill ahead of the 89th Legislative Session that would create the Medicaid expansion program, Live Well Texas. Similar efforts have failed in the past.

After resisting for 14 years, Texas lawmakers are considering Medicaid expansion under the proposed bills SB 637 and HB 2939. Texas is one of 10 states that have not expanded Medicaid. The Affordable ...

A 2020 poll found that 69 percent of Texans support Medicaid expansion, which would include $5 billion in federal money to pick up 90 percent of the cost of providing insurance to 1.2 million ...

The Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid coverage to nearly all adults with incomes of up to 138% of the federal poverty level. (In 2023, that's equal to $20,120 for an individual, or $41,400 for ...