Home >> Research >> Public Benefits

More Information

Related Topics

• Your County and the ACA
• Testimony on Texas HHSC LAR
• Choices and Challenges: How Texas County Uninsured Rates Will Drop Under Health Care Reform

Also by Anne Dunkelberg

• What We Know About the Medicaid Expansion
• Presentation: Texas Has a Health Care Spending Problem, Not a Medicaid Problem
• Texans Need Real Solutions to Our Health Care Needs

Information on Medicaid Simplification

  

Author:
Anne Dunkelberg /(512) 320-0222 x 102

April 10, 2003

Read Full Article >>  

Prior to SB 43 (in April 2001), 67% of the families of children subject to simplification reported earned income (the remainder were dependent on SSI disability, SSDI, or child support). As of January 2003, that percentage has increased to 79%. The children who lose out when bureaucratic hurdles are used to reduce caseloads are the children in working families — the ones we all want to reward.