Thanks for the opportunity for me to explain.
A lot of people don't fully understand.
The Medicaid Expansion Program is a national money bucket that
we all spend money into through our federal taxes.
So every American pays into it.
And with this national money bucket, money flows from this
bucket into each state of the country that is opted
into the Medicaid expansion program, which is most states in
the country, but not Texas.
So we Texans pay uh money into this national money
bucket and then it flows to California because they have
opted into Medicaid expansion.
It flows into New Jersey because they've opted into Medicaid
expansion, but not back here in Texas.
Because we have wanted to join the Medicaid expansion, both
Democrats and Republicans, and the state house and state senate
has pushed that legislation to Governor Abbott's desk, but then
Governor Abbott decided to veto it.
We are losing about $10 billion a year for this.
We're losing about we've lost, I think about a hundred
billion dollars over the past ten years over this of
money that could have been put here in Texas, all
while I was talking about my friend Kenneth who's having
to drop her Medicaid recipients because she's she says the
mic the Medicaid money's just not there anymore, especially especially
with inflation and after the rates have not been adjusted.
So it's completely needless.
It is bipartisan.
Uh it's just Governor Abbott has blocked it because the
Medicaid expansion program is part of the Affordable Care Act,
or as some people call it Obamacare, and Governor Abbott
has made a career out of basically trying to knock
down everything that has Obama's name on it.