2022 HEALTH CARE EDITION
JOINING THE ROLLS The amount of people who enrolled in Medicaid has been increasing in Fort Bend and Harris counties since March 2020, the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. SOURCES: TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
and result in about 13,000 new enroll- ments. This would come at a cost of around $73.5 million to the federal gov- ernment and $8.2 million to Texas. In Harris County, 223,700 more peo- ple would become eligible, resulting in an estimated 167,500 new enrollments. Harris County expansion would cost $949.9 million from the federal govern- ment and $105.5 million from the state. Ahead of the next legislative session in January, several local representa- tives said Medicaid is top of mind. Those opposed to expansion said Texas would still be on the hook for about $500 million in program costs and questioned the eects it would have on improving health care out- comes in the state. But Paret said the cost is unavoidable. “You pay for it one way or another,” she said. “If you deal with health issues early, they’re going to have less impact and less cost. If you wait because peo- ple don’t have access to care until they’re advanced, there’s more cost.”
MEDICAID ENROLLMENT HARRIS COUNTY FORT BEND COUNTY
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JAN. MARCH MAY JULY SEPT. 2021 March 2020-October 2021 TEXAS: +31.2% HARRIS COUNTY: +31.86% FORT BEND COUNTY: +42.28%
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states, Texas also has set the high- est bar for people to qualify based on income, only allowing people to enroll if they make less than $103 per month. “Fort Bend County has a lower proportion of uninsured residents than many other counties in Texas;
however, there are some areas across our community where health care insurance coverage is at a much lower rate,” Minter said in an email. “The expansion of Medicaid would likely result in part of this uninsured pop- ulation becoming eligible for federal
health care programs.” Researchers with Texas A&M Univer- sity released a study into the economic eects of Medicaid expansion in 2019. The study found expanding Med- icaid would make about 17,000 more people eligible in Fort Bend County
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