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Time to get real about tackling Texas’ uninsured rate By Erica Grieder
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Texas’ Republican leaders were abruptly reminded of that Friday, when the Biden administration announced it was rescinding an 11th-hour waiver extension issued by the Trump administration relating to the Medicaid program. The waiver has continued the flow of federal dollars to Texas to prop up hospitals that treat low-income, uninsured residents even as the GOP-led state has refused to expand Medicaid through Obamacare.
To hear Republicans such as Gov. Greg Abbott tell it, the president cruelly yanked the rug out from under some of the state’s most vulnerable Texans while we’re still in a pandemic, no less. Biden is “deliberately betraying Texans who depend on the resources made possible through this waiver,” the governor said in a statement.