Texas to retain Medicaid agreement, blocking Biden administration move

A federal judge has issued a ruling that keeps in place the Texas Medicaid agreement.

The decision blocks an effort by the Biden administration to rescind the deal.

Texas received its first Medicaid waiver a decade ago. The waiver was set to expire next year after the Biden administration rescinded the Trump administration's 10-year extension of it.

Texas is one of only 12 states that have resisted expanding Medicaid coverage. Instead, state Republican leaders negotiated waivers to provide billions of federal dollars in reimbursements to hospitals that serve the uninsured.

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