Could Texas Still Be Coaxed into Expanding Medicaid? Looming Waiver Deadline Could Make it Possible

Edgar Walter, Texas Tribune If Texas wants to keep receiving billions of federal dollars to help hospitals care for uninsured patients, state lawmakers may have to look again at expanding Medicaid coverage for impoverished adults, some political observers say. That’s because in 2016, Texas will have to ask the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to renew …