One takeaway after several weeks of listening to people with their thumb on the pulse of health care policy issues in Texas is Medicaid expansion might well be dead on arrival before the 2017 legislative session begins in Austin.A number of advocates continue to push for the expansion to cover Texans at up to 138% of the poverty level, but the direction of key legislators is clear: nope.
Source: Medicaid debate in Texas centered on 1115 waiver, not expansion – State of Reform | State of Reform