New: Planned Parenthood on Wednesday said it filed an emergency lawsuit to stop Texas from kicking it out of Medicaid, in a last ditch effort to keep providing non-abortion services to some 8,000 low-income patients. bit.ly/3cDpccL
2/ Texas gave Planned Parenthood patients until Feb. 3 to find new doctors after the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Texas officials who have long sought to block the health provider from participating in the joint state-federal health insurance program for the poor.
3/ In Texas, Medicaid primarily provides health insurance for children, and those who have a disability, are pregnant or are parents. It is difficult to qualify in Texas, a state that has not expanded Medicaid; a single parent with two children cannot make more than $230 a month.
4/4 We reported on how low-income Texans were struggling to find new doctors after the state booted Planned Parenthood off Medicaid: bit.ly/2O5WuXF
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