Texas Medicaid Cuts Leave Special Needs Children Without Therapy

ABC News

By: Meredith Hoffman

Stacey English has modest desires for her 7-year-old daughter Addison: Be able to eat without gagging and move both her arms.

The Texas cuts are separate from Republican proposals now before Congress, which academics say could cut federal Medicaid spending as part of a law to replace the Affordable Care Act. But the fallout could eventually be similar if some form of what’s been approved in the U.S. House, and is under consideration in the Senate, becomes law, said Elizabeth Burak, the senior program director of Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families

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