Jessica Priest, Lomi Kriel, and Eleanor Klibanoff look at what Texas is doing to people who qualify for Medicaid. Key findings:
1. Texas has stripped Medicaid coverage from 2 million people, most of them children.
2. After the COVID-19 public health emergency ended, states were free to “unwind” people off Medicaid. Texas moved aggressively.
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in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •More than 1 million lost coverage for bureaucratic reasons, like failing to return a form, not because they weren’t eligible.
3. Disenrollment mistakes were preventable and foreshadowed by warnings from the federal government, whistleblowers and advocates.
4. Texas is under federal investigation for its long Medicaid enrollment waits.
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in reply to William Lindsey :toad: • • •One expert said Texas’ unwinding stance was, 'We don’t do anything illegal, but we want to get our program as fast as we can down to what it was before the pandemic.'
5. Some Texas families that lost Medicaid coverage during the unwinding are also waiting more than a month for food assistance because the state uses the same eligibility system to process both applications. 'It’s felt like a one-two punch,; said one food bank CEO.
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