Medicaid

Low-income Texans no longer able to access abortion are likely to carry out a pregnancy. Many of them don’t have health insurance, which means they’re eligible for Medicaid. But the system operates at the minimum here.

One in four working-age Texans went without insurance last year.

The Biden administration's actions rolls back a Trump-era policy that some said deterred immigrants from applying for benefits like SNAP and WIC.

Greg Abbott claimed Texas provides expectant mothers “necessary resources so that they can choose life for their child,” but it is now one of a dwindling number of states not to offer Medicaid coverage for a full year after residents give birth.

Groups say the base pay for community attendants needs to increase from $8.11 to $15 an hour. But changing that pay is up to state lawmakers.

The pandemic has overwhelmed understaffed state Medicaid agencies, and as Biden's COVID-19 public health emergency declaration ends, low-income people could find it even harder to get coverage.

An emergency pandemic policy under the Trump and Biden administrations has led to more people covered by Medicaid in Texas, a state that has long refused to expand coverage. But it’s unclear how long those protections will last.

If passed, the Build Back Better bill would extend health plans to people living in Texas and the other 11 states that didn't expand Medicaid.

There are more than 2 million uninsured adults in states that didn't expand Medicaid. Congressional Democrats have a plan to cover them — if they can find money for it in the massive spending bill.

Hundreds of organizations are asking Congress to extend Medicaid in the current budget reconciliation bill being negotiated in Washington.