New Texas lawsuit accuses Biden administration of threatening state's health care funding to force

[TexasTowelie]

New Texas lawsuit accuses Biden administration of threatening state’s health care funding to force Medicaid expansion

by Karen Brooks Harper, Texas Tribune


Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration Friday to reinstate an eight-year extension to a federal health care funding agreement, worth billions of dollars annually and set to expire next year, that the state uses to help pay for health care for uninsured Texans.

Last month, federal health officials rescinded the Trump-era extension to the 1115 waiver agreement — which Texas has had with the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services since 2011 and is up for review every few years — and ordered Texas to collect public input, as the agreement requires, while it renegotiates a new extension beyond its current October 2022 expiration date.

The decision did not stop the funding in the current waiver, which will continue to provide $3.87 billion in annual funding for 2021 and 2022 to partly offset free care provided by Texas hospitals to the uninsured, and to pay for innovative health care projects that serve low-income Texans, often for mental health services.

The extension, granted in the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency, would have continued hospital reimbursements until September 2030 but allowed the innovation fund to expire.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/14/texas-health-care-paxton-lawsuit-medicaid/

[Lovie777]

1. When will they arrest this guy . ..

most republicans don't give damn about health care . .

[The Magistrate]

2. Not a Legal Leg To Stand Honestly On, Sir

Any waiver can be rescinded, for any reason, by the entity which extends it. A waiver is an exception, and its continuance cannot be insisted on.