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Sheiky-Baby posted...

You do realize it's required by law to send them a notice through email, phone, or through post mail that their medicaid will be ending soon, and direct them to a website to update their information, or fill out the forms they get through post mail if they want to do it physically? Yes? Stop fucking trying to find an excuse.

here's an article that goes into more detail about the hurdles so many Texans face

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/medicaid-disenrollment-texas-children/

Adding to the frustration of Texans who have lost Medicaid in recent months is that most of them, including Harper, werent actually deemed ineligible for the program. Nearly 1.2 million were removed for procedural reasons, stymied by the red tape of the renewal process. As of last month, this included more than 858,000 kids. In some of these cases, according to Medicaid advocates, families moved and never received the letter informing them that they needed to submit certain income information, or the notification was written in a language they dont read, or they submitted paperwork but it was missing a signature, or they needed assistance renewing their coverage but couldnt get through to HHSC by calling 211.

Terry Anstee, an attorney with Disability Rights Texas, said hes seen situations in which the state determined people no longer qualified for Medicaid under one eligibility criterion and removed them, even though they were eligible under another. Other applicants appeared to have done everything right but were erroneously kicked off anyway.

While other states have relied more heavily on first checking eligibility through readily available data sources, Texas has renewed fewer than 3 percent of Medicaid enrollees this waythe lowest rate in the country.

Texas is making it exceptionally difficult and is exceptionally unforgiving here. on purpose.