Advocates of Medicaid expansion in Texas often highlight our state’s record of the largest uninsured population in the nation, according to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report. Though the uninsured rate is falling, advocates say, it would fall even faster if we expanded Medicaid.
However, expansion supporters overlook research showing that Medicaid patients have poor health outcomes, access to care is relative to private health coverage, and the growth of the program’s costs are unsustainable.
Source: Ginn: Reform Texas Medicaid to help the poor The Statesman