Analysis: Texas gets a respite on Medicaid, but not a cure for the uninsured

Texas got a temporary reprieve on Medicaid funding from the federal government. But that won’t solve underlying problems with high numbers of uninsured Texans. Texas Uninsured Healthcare Medicine ACA

Texas is one of a dozen states that hasn’t expanded its Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act.continue sending Medicaid moneyBut it’s not a permanent fix, and the state still has to work out solutions for uninsured Texans, the state of rural hospitals and other issues.

data for 2020 from the U.S. Census Bureau. That was 17.3% of the population — also the highest in the country. CMS halted those payments to Texas — about $7 million a day — in September, questioning whether the state’s scheme was legal. For now, it has decided to restore the payments, so the good news is that there is no bad news — at the moment. And it also agreed to make the decision retroactive, so all of the money denied to the state since September is now coming in.

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