Civil rights group said the move is the latest in a series of actions and policy changes that could make immigrants wary of ...

If Texas doesn’t expand Medicaid, it will reject more than $100 billion in federal money the first decade, according to the state’s own figures.

The unwinding process has resulted in significant drops in Medicaid enrollment across the U.S. in recent years.

Further, federal officials dispute the notion that Texas is being required to make certain changes to the SHARS program. In a statement to the Tribune, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...

Texas avoided some steeper Medicaid cuts, but hundreds of thousands of Texans are still projected to lose health coverage due ...

The program provides health care for 3 in 8 children, 3 in 5 nursing home residents and 2 in 7 people with disabilities in Texas, according to KFF, a national health policy research organization.

Texas is clawing back more than $607 million per year in federal funding for special education services, a move local school district officials say will likely worsen already strained budgets for ...

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.

The program is worth worth more than $11 billion per year, according to the Texas Hospital Association. Texas requested the waiver of section 1115 in November, asking for a five-year extension.

Texas had over 4 million enrolled in Medicaid in 2024 — around 15% of the state’s population. Wu specifically criticized the Medicaid cuts as targeting the most vulnerable.

Senate Bill 232 would create the Live Well Texas program, which would expand Medicaid while adding elements passed in other conservative states — including incentives to encourage self ...

Health Care If Trump Makes Cuts to Medicaid, Texas Officials Could Seize the Opportunity to Further Slash the Program State leaders have shown a decadeslong antipathy toward the health insurance ...