1 in 6 Texans get Medicaid health insurance program, whose costs in Texas are projected to grow $3 billion every year | Texas Healthcare Report

Gov. Ann Richards had appointed Friedholm director of a Medicaid program in Texas that was $1.8 billion in the hole. Although she is credited with statewide reforms that solved her first budget crisis, Friedholm sounded a note of almost helpless dread familiar to that heard for the future of Medicaid today.

1 in 6 Texans get Medicaid health insurance program, whose costs in Texas are projected to grow $3 billion every year | Texas Healthcare Report