Editorial: Unforgivable: Texas slams door on uninsured
Express-News Editorial Board
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The beginning of the 87th Texas legislative session in January offered the slim possibility for Medicaid expansion.
It was always the smallest of chances. Republican opposition to expansion has long been tethered to an ideological tenet rather than moral or economic calculations. But Texas’ dubious distinction of leading the nation in uninsured people, compounded by a pandemic, opened the possibility of action. Then came the Biden administration’s decision to rescind the extension of a federal funding agreement known as the 1115 waiver. Perhaps this would move some Republican legislators toward supporting a measure that would reduce those uninsured numbers.