Texans across the state support Medicaid expansion. It is not just individuals and families who support expansion - local government and counties, chambers of commerce, hospitals districts and associations, interfaith groups, big and small business, and legislators across the aisle support it, too.Read More >>
A recent survey conducted by the Texas Hospital Association (THA) shows that 59% of Texans are in favor of the Medicaid expansion once they know all of the benefits that come along with accepting these federal funds. Read More >>
Expanding Medicaid in Texas through the Affordable Care Act is a no-brainer, which is why it's such a tough decision for Rick Perry. This should help: a new economic analysis by the Perryman Group shows that expanding Medicaid in Texas would create an economic windfall for our state.Read More >>
During last night's Texas Senate debate, Republican nominee Ted Cruz expressed some truly out-there conspiracy theories about the Affordable Care Act - namely that it's a slippery slope law towards socialized medicine, and that a law nearly 80 years in the making was rammed through in a "brazen display of arrogance."Read More >>
Paul Ryan addressed the AARP's National Annual Conference in New Orleans this afternoon . . . and it didn't go well. Watch for yourself as Ryan is booed loudly while lying about the Affordable Care Act.Read More >>
Governor Perry has persisted in his ideological determination to make enactment of the Affordable Care Act as difficult as possible. But Perry’s word is not the last one on Medicaid expansion -- according to a recent Washington Post article, several larger counties have started discussing the idea of accepting the federal funds on their own.Read More >>
Please call Governor Rick Perry at 888-530-9422 and tell him: "I don't want my federal tax dollars to go to other states' hospitals and health systems. Expand Medicaid, so Texans have coverage and our health dollars can come back to Texas!"Read More >>
Thanks to President Obama and the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, Texans should be protected from unfair and unjustified insurance rate hikes. The Affordable Care Act calls for the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) to automatically review any insurance rate hike 10% or more to determine whether or not it's a justified increase...Read More >>
Texas Well and Healthy recently launched a new campaign asking for folks to to share their story about what the Affordable Care Act means to them. For their campaign they released the video below of Liz, a young uninsured Texan, sharing her story.Read More >>
