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Millions of Texans — mostly children, young adults and new moms — stayed on Medicaid for the duration of the pandemic. The state will soon start reevaluating eligibility.
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The Texas Department of State Health Services and Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee's report is finally out after months of delays.
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Maternal health advocates want Texas leaders to prioritize support for pregnant people in the 2023 legislative session.
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Low-income Texans no longer able to access abortion are likely to carry out a pregnancy. Many of them don’t have health insurance, which means they’re eligible for Medicaid. But the system operates at the minimum here.
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Nationally, Black people giving birth are three times more likely to die than their white counterparts, and twice as likely in Texas. That concerns reproductive justice advocates, who fear these outcomes will worsen now that Roe v. Wade is overturned, and people can’t access abortion services.
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State lawmakers who wanted the extension believe feds could have interpreted language in a 2021 bill as excluding pregnant Texas women who had abortions.
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The federal emergency declaration is expected to last through at least mid-October and has kept states from dropping people from Medicaid rolls.
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More than a quarter of women of childbearing age are uninsured in Texas, the highest rate in the nation, and the state has chosen to cap Medicaid benefits for new moms earlier than other states.
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The pandemic has overwhelmed understaffed state Medicaid agencies, and as Biden's COVID-19 public health emergency declaration ends, low-income people could find it even harder to get coverage.
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Pelosi joined Rep. Colin Allred at a health care roundtable to discuss legislation to lower drug prices.
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At least 770,000 Texans are ineligible for both Medicaid and health insurance subsidies through the state-run marketplaces.
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More than 2 million Americans are uninsured because they live in the 12 states that didn't expand Medicaid. 60% are people of color. Will Congress help by including them in the new spending bill?