Congress should be careful with Medicaid. Lives are at stake.
BY John Hawkins, President and CEO, THA Since talk of a major congressional budget package began several months ago, our Texas Hospital Association has been stressing that Medicaid – the source of health coverage for more than 4 million Texans – couldn’t handle a seismic and sudden upset. Based on where things stand at this writing, we’ve made progress. But there’s a long way to go, and the future of Medicaid funding in...