Million More Texans Could Have Free Health Insurance

State legislators refuse to expand Medicaid eligibility, even though it would be federally funded thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Not doing so means nearly one million Texans today don’t have access to free health insurance that they could have at little or no additional cost to the state. Medicaid expansion remains the most straightforward, if politically infeasible, way to at least partially address the health insurance crisis in our state