Texas Senate OKs one year of postpartum Medicaid — with an anti-abortion amendment
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Supporters of the bill have called for the Legislature to pass a “clean bill,” without amendments, to ensure the federal government quickly approves Texas’ request to extend Medicaid coverage. A version of this bill that passed last session, extending coverage to six months, was deemed “But on the Senate floor Sunday night, bill sponsor Sen., R-Brenham, introduced an amendment and intimated the bill wasn’t going to pass the Senate without it.
“In the meantime, the entire program is vulnerable to not being approved by [the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid] precisely because of this language,” Johnson said. “I don’t want to gamble with women’s lives…so I wish you’d take these words out.” “It's my opinion that as Texans we're reaching out more than halfway to address the concerns of the federal government,” Hancock said. “If they fail us on this one, then they're failing the women in the state of Texas.”
in Texas, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers and advocacy groups have pushed the bill nearly to the finish line.
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