What the Medicaid coverage gap means to Texans without health insurance
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In 2012, Tanya Walker took the $200 her father loaned her to see a doctor. She was in the aftermath of a divorce and needed a prescription for antidepressants, she said. But her doctor in Texarkana found signs of hypertension and prediabetes — problems Walker knew she could not afford to have. Although her five […]
Texas Medicaid expansion would help homeless, advocates say
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*Correction appended When Susan Peake moved to Austin from Denver in 2018, she traded one kind of safety net for another. In Colorado, she’d received state-funded health insurance coverage, which she credits with saving her from financial ruin after she suffered a heart attack requiring double-bypass surgery. In Texas, though she did not qualify for […]
Birth control, vasectomies become cheaper under new CA law
By Ana B. Ibarra, CalMatters Exam rooms at Mountain Valley Health Center in Bieber on July 23, 2019. A new California law taking effect Jan. 1, 2024 will make contraception cheaper for millions of Californians by requiring insurers to cover more of the cost of vasectomies and birth control. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters […]