Texas holds the dubious distinction of leading the nation in medically uninsured residents, by a lot. There are more Texans without health insurance than there are residents of Louisiana, the twenty-fifth most populous state. Getting by on a hodgepodge of free or low-cost (often inadequate) care, or piling up a mountain of debt they’re not likely ever going to be able to pay back, Texas’s 4.9 million uninsured residents—a staggering 16.6 percent of the population, more than twice the nationwide rate—live with this constant medical and financial vulnerability.State legislators refuse to expand Medicaid eligibility, even though it would be federally funded thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Not doing so means nearly one million Texans today don’t have access to free health insurance that they…
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