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We have a failing Medicaid system here in
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As healthcare providers are not provided
enough support in order

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to apply their services, a lot of providers
are meeting

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the hard decision to drop support for their
Medicaid recipients

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and only service those who pay out of pocket.

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Meaning, hey, I guess if you're rich, then
good for

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you.

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But if not, if you're just a Medicaid
recipient, then,

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well, you might be on your own.

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But hey, don't take my word for it.

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Listen to Kenneth, a healthcare service
provider.

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What the problem is with the funding of
Medicaid.

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Transportation 24 hours, 20 million house on
$200.

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That right there is a woman who owns an LLC

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that provides assisted living.

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Assisted living for those who might have a bit
of

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a dementia or just simply cannot be trusted to
live

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on their own.

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Maybe they'll leave the gas stove on, etc.

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And uh she provides services for all these
people, but

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she's not getting enough money from Medicaid
anymore to service

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those individuals as described.

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So she's coming to me, she's saying, Dale,
man, like

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I'm not gonna go out of business because I'm
gonna

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continue to support only those who pay out of
pocket,

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but I feel really bad that I have to drop

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all these Medicaid recipients.

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She's basically has all these people that she
knows that

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she services, that she helps, and she's having
to drop

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the support for them because the money's just
not there.

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This whole financial situation could have been
avoided if Texas

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was part of the Medicaid expansion program.

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It is insane that we are not part of this

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program because we pay money to it anyways.

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Even though you're a Texan, you are paying
money to

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a national program called the Medicaid
Expansion Program, and only

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those states that opt into it get that money
back.

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Case in point, you are spending money right
now for

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healthcare programs in California right now
and New Jersey, but

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not back here in Texas.

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All because our governor would not allow us to
join

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the Medicaid Expansion Program.

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A program that is favored by both Democrats
and Republicans

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in the state and Senate chamber and has sent
that

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bill to Governor Abbott's desk before, only
for him to

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choose to not sign it.

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to We need to

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send leadership Austin that will continue to
press for Medicaid

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expansion because our elderly, our injured,
our disabled,

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they need this support.