Texas is one of 10 states without expanded Medicaid. An additional 1.4 million uninsured, non-elderly adults could get insurance if Texas expanded its Medicaid eligibility requirements.
Texas is one of 10 states without expanded Medicaid, but 1.4 million uninsured, non-elderly adults could get insurance if Texas expanded eligibility.After Edilio Acosta moved to Texas, he said he didn't realize he wouldn't have the same access to free healthcare that he was used to in his home country of Cuba.
States with expanded Medicaid extend healthcare coverage to more low-income, working residents, even if they're not elderly or disabled. David Balat, director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Right on Healthcare initiative, said expanding Medicaid would extend the benefits to "able-bodied adults beyond those for whom the program was intended."Balat, who is against expanding Medicaid, said it isn't about dollar signs. Instead, he said, it's about the bottleneck he believes this will cause for an already saturated system without enough physicians to treat those who are on Medicaid.
"What we're talking about is taking the tax dollars that we're all paying in federal income tax - that go off to Washington, that are currently being sent to 40 other states to cover healthcare costs, but not to Texas," Johnson said.
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