Suehs: Texas Must Change, Not Abandon, Medicaid
Texas cannot walk away from Medicaid, and Gov. Rick Perry agrees, Health and Human Services Commissioner Tom Suehs said this afternoon, hours after releasing the agency’s long-awaited report on the feasibility of dropping out of the federal matching program.
“He knows he can’t walk away leaving 15 percent of the health care economy on the table,” Suehs said in an interview with the Tribune. “But he also knows he can’t continue the program the way it is today, and we have to work with Congress to reinvent it.”
Perry answered for himself in a press release, calling ...
Comments (3)
Waunelle Laird via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I agree we can not afford to pay for all the illeagles by ourselves. We might could afford if we could finish the wall and ship all the ones who are here now back to Mexico where they belong
Jordan Stewart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The Governor's rare moments of sanity are always welcome.
Diana Seidel
I just listened to the report of this story on KUT and was struck by a couple of large inconsistencies in the complaints about Federal reimbursement of Medicaid.
First, the 70% received this year, rather than the usual 60%, was due to Stimulus funding--the same Stimulus much maligned by Texas Republicans.
And Second, state Republicans want more Federal reimbursement even as they loudly proclaim that the Feds are taking too much of our money and should stay out of State business.
The reporter should be questioning them and reporting on these inconsistencies.