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There not cutting off any money to children on medicaid.
They are cutting off money to doctors (people who often can afford to donate money to build these stadiums).
Those are wealthy school districts and can afford those football palaces. Besides, it's the will of the residents because they vote for it.
A totally separate issue from healthcare & healthcare insurance.
Aren't these school districts also part of the state of TX which on the whole does not adequately fund social services for its residents? It would seem to be a matter of preference. The people in these wealthy districts prefer a football palace over helping out their fellow state residents in other parts of TX.
Why? Why do people not bother to even read their own links?
Texas is not cutting off 60K special needs children. Texas is not ending therapy for 60K special needs children. Texas has cut the amount they are willing to pay for each visit. In other words, if Texas had been paying up $50 a visit they will now only pay $47 a visit. (Made up numbers) The question is not whether the children are still entitled to have therapy paid for by the state, the question is whether the professionals who say those children need the therapy are willing to continue to claim they need the services when they receive less money for it.
This is correct. I've written before that Texas has A law that every program & agency is reviewed every 10 years for effiency effectiveness. They discovered that the rates on this Therapy program with Medicaid are 3 Times the rates on similar/same programs in other States. There was a reduction in the rate.
Texas local governments have a well-documented history of extravagant high school football facilities.
Even though it's not the same level of government cutting Medicaid, it does show you the overall priorities of Texans.
In general, those extravagant football stadiums are being built in affluent, mostly white areas (sometimes with large populations of east or south Asian immigrants, also usually affluent). These people, including the immigrants once naturalized, vote Republican. In fact, Collin County (home of Allen's infamous stadium) is redder than a baboon's behind.
These stadiums are financed by bonds which are put to a public vote, not by the state legislature doling out tax dollars.
These same people who fund extravagant public stadiums are also usually the ones voting for Republican state reps/senators who support defunding pretty much any public safety net you can think of.
Food for thought if you're ever contemplating moving to Texas. I'm from here, DH isn't. We can't wait to leave.
Why? Why do people not bother to even read their own links?
Texas is not cutting off 60K special needs children. Texas is not ending therapy for 60K special needs children. Texas has cut the amount they are willing to pay for each visit. In other words, if Texas had been paying up $50 a visit they will now only pay $47 a visit. (Made up numbers) The question is not whether the children are still entitled to have therapy paid for by the state, the question is whether the professionals who say those children need the therapy are willing to continue to claim they need the services when they receive less money for it.
Ah, but they are. As a person who both lives in Texas and works with Medicaid patients in my job every day, I will tell you what will happen to these disabled children. They are indeed backhandedly cutting off care to these special needs kids. Why? Because Medicaid pays providers very little as it is. Because of that, there are few providers willing to treat Medicaid patients due to the low rates of reimbursement so the providers who will are overloaded with patients. So since TX is once again lowering reimbursement rates, more providers will simply refuse to accept Medicaid, and for good reason. In my suburb of Houston, there are two providers who offer eye care to Medicare recipients for our entire city. About 70% of our practice consists of Medicaid patients because they can't get eye exams and glasses anywhere else. Once again, poor people in TX are punished for not having money. And to add insult to injury, these are disabled kids who won't get the care they need. Way to go GOP
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