Since pandemic-era protections for health care coverage ended in March, more than 900,000 Texans have lost Medicaid coverage.
For the first time in three years, many families and kids are caught up in the state’s re-enrollment process, a multi-step system of complex paperwork, deadlines and financial requirements.
Now, whistleblowers who say they work in the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) are alleging people have been denied coverage in error because of mismanagement within the agency.
Honestly, as unfortunate as this is, I kinda do view this as a “fuck around/find out” dynamic. Constituents didn’t vote, or voted against their own interests, and this is the government it yielded. Maybe change your elected government if you don’t like that it’s actively hurting you.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/texass-voter-suppression-law-trial
Texas doesn’t want people to vote, especially people of color and people with disabilities.
Cutting a program that helps these people is a means of voter suppression.