Imagine living in a state that treats your kid so badly you have to leave. A Houston Chronicle investigation shows how Texas neglects critical disability services through Medicaid waivers, forcing families to flee, the Editorial Board writes.
funded through a combination of state and federal funds, estimated that there are 200,000 Texans waiting for care.
Today, her children play together, read, write, and two of them even tested out of services after so much progress. “Their paperwork,” Stuckey writes, “now reads ‘a history of autism.’” Setting aside the obvious pragmatic reasons that any state should care for and invest in its young people, what about the moral obligation to help vulnerable children and others in need? Texas lawmakers who like to tout their Christian faith when it’s politically expedient need to ponder what exactly Jesus meant when he encouraged caring for the “least of these.” Hint: He didn’t mean they were the least important.
“It really shouldn’t matter where you live, this is America,” Ursitti told Stuckey. “But when you think about having to wait 10 to 15 years for services, it’s just unfathomable. But somehow, somewhere, someone decided that was acceptable.”It’s not acceptable. It’s time that Texans of conscience — and there are still a great many of us left — should say so.
Sometimes, it feels like the people who run this state are turning downright Darwinian: only the fittest will survive here.
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