Texas Parents Find Access to Medicaid Without Expansion

Texas’ Republican leadership made sure the state didn’t expand its Medicaid program to poor, uninsured adults — an optional provision of the Affordable Care Act. But low-income parents here are increasingly getting covered by the joint state-federal insurer anyway — through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. The state program, known as TANF, is funded by a federal block grant, and intended […]