A bipartisan agreement to expand Medicaid coverage to more low-income adults while loosening or ending several regulatory hurdles to building more health care facilities could get its final votes next week after clearing the Senate on Wednesday. Senators voted 44-2 to complete its approval of legislation that would direct state health officials to accept Medicaid […]
Texas Cutting All Medicaid Funding to PLANNED PARENTHOOD, Citing Alleged Violations Captured on Video
October 19, 2015 by
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas announced Monday that it was cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood clinics following undercover videos of officials discussing fetal tissue, potentially triggering a legal fight like the one unfolding in neighboring Louisiana. Planned Parenthood affiliates statewide were told in a letter that their enrollment in the joint state-federal Medicaid […]