The implications for Texas of CMS’s rescission of its Medicaid waiver extension DJ Wilson | Apr 19, 2021
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Last week’s news that the Biden administration was rescinding the 1115 waiver extension the Trump administration had granted Texas was felt from California to Florida, and certainly throughout the Lone Star State.
Austin was buzzing with the implications for the state, a reality that only began to settle in on Monday as staff at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) were able to make sense of the 669-page transmission.
Here is an excerpt from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) announcement on Friday:
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in a primetime speech tonight. The U.S. is not Israel or the Seychelles, which lead the world in distributing shots, but it’s ahead of most other nations including European countries that have been far more successful at tamping down Covid spread.
(PRESIDIO, Texas) Jorge Figueroa was willing to drive eight hours round trip.
He wasn’t going on vacation or to visit a relative.
Instead, he was planning to get a lifesaving shot to protect him from COVID-19 a shot that many Americans can now conveniently access at their neighborhood pharmacy.
The 54-year-old father of four has been eager to get vaccinated because he has high blood pressure, which could increase his risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. But Figueroa lives in Presidio, Texas, a city of about 4,000 people on the U.S.-Mexico border where there’s no hospital, no full-time doctor and no pharmacy.
‘Pharmacy deserts’ are new front in the race to vaccinate for COVID-19
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(PRESIDIO, Texas) Jorge Figueroa was willing to drive eight hours round trip.
He wasn’t going on vacation or to visit a relative.
Instead, he was planning to get a lifesaving shot to protect him from COVID-19 a shot that many Americans can now conveniently access at their neighborhood pharmacy.
The 54-year-old father of four has been eager to get vaccinated because he has high blood pressure, which could increase his risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. But Figueroa lives in Presidio, Texas, a city of about 4,000 people on the U.S.-Mexico border where there’s no hospital, no full-time doctor and no pharmacy.
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