Federal Poverty Level Texas

Our shameful treatment of black and brown people

Allow me to be the next of what will surely be many right-leaning Internet blowhards jumping on Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy.  His ham-handed attempt to blame Liberal boogermen the NRA and Sarah Palin for Chicago's crime problems amuse more than outrage.  Why wasn't Sarah Palin at the crime scene with you?  Why wasn't fellow private citizen Michael Moore?  What is she, Mayor of Newark?  Governor of New Jersey?  Batman? He'd probably get the same applause if he tied it to Chris Christie's budget cuts, except sans the baffling non-sequitur and even scoring a few points with the Union brass.  He explicitly said she was caribou hunting and not stalking Ice-T along  with special guest star Rutger Hauer, right?  Was he envisioning a tightly-clad-in-leather Palin at the crime scene handcuffed in the back of a cruiser reciting the Necronomicon from memory with blood dripping from her fangs? Nay, that would be the easy way to avoid discussing - "because everybody's afraid of race," as McCarthy said - America's shameful legacy of government-sponsored racism.  I salute his courage.  It's rare these days to see a public official broach the subject of slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and racism when attacking a Conservative entity.  I shall heed his call to wade into the morass of government-sponsored racism. Well I believe a black, brown, yellow, red, whatever child raised in my place would have turned out more or less as I did.  Just like Billy Ray in Trading Places.  Remember how Mortimer and Randolph had a photo of Reagan on their desk?  In old-money Philadelphia.  The two evil racist guys in the movie.  The ones just like me because we believe environment is more important than genetics when determining a person's lot in life. My grannie grew up dirt poor in the Texas Hill Country.  My mom was born dirt poor in-and-around WWII in Wimberly, Texas.  At some point her old man split and left Grannie alone to raise her, my aunt, and uncle.  The only thing standing between me and poor white trash is my mom's work ethic.  She worked her ass off after my old man passed to make sure I went to good schools.  I was a smart-mouthed little bastard too. Grannie, growing up in the Texas Hill Country, almost surely met LBJ in person at some point in her life.  Maybe even got paid to vote for LBJ by the man himself.

AZ, TX, NJ Proposals Seek to Lower Medicaid Budget with Impact on ...

Many states continue to devise proposals to lower Medicaid expenditures with a potential of curtailing eligibility for many applicants and recipients.  In Arizona, Governor Jan Brewer has proposed an enrollment freeze which would cut about $500 million from the state’s Medicaid program in fiscal 2012; but it is estimated that 100,000 people would lose coverage if enrollment is capped.  Her plan also caps enrollment for parents earning above 75 percent of the federal poverty level, effective October 1, which affects about 60,000 parents and would save an estimated $17 million the first year.  DHHS Secretary Sebelius has said the governor “can eliminate coverage for these groups without losing federal matching funds because it goes beyond Medicaid requirements”.  In Texas, the House tentatively approved a bill on June 10 that would require state Health and Human Services chief Ton Suehs to seek a waiver from DHHS that would let state officials take care of more than 4 million people on Medicaid and in the Children’s Health Insurance Program by, in some cases, having them buy private insurance.  Others would use vouchers for long-term care services and manage their own health savings accounts.  Media report that on June 30 New Jersey plans to submit a Medicaid waiver to DHHS which would drop the income cap for new adult enrollees to about 25 percent of the poverty level “in a move that would deny services to an estimated 23,000 people”.  In response to pointed questions from state legislators as to projected savings, officials from the state Department of Human Services estimated that the eligibility cuts would save $17 million to $32 million.  Officials are also quoted about counting on $200 million in increased federal funding.  It is also reported that Governor Chris Christie is proposing a $540 million reduction.

Guide to State Medicaid Managed Care Laws and Rules, 1999 Edition

CHIP Texas will use its allotment to expand Medicaid eligibility to children up to age 19 in families with incomes below 100% of the federal poverty level. ...

Law, explanation and analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including Reconciliation Act impact

Similarly, the federal poverty level is not adjusted to reflect the lower cost- of- living in Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, Nebraska, South Dakota, Missouri, ...

Texas Politics Today

... 18 who reside in families with income below the federal poverty level; ... than 135 percent of the federal poverty level.10 Texas spends 18.7 percent of ...

Texas Politics Today 2009-2010

For individuals treated at public expense, Texas, like most states, ... 6 through 18 who reside in families with income below the federal poverty level; ...

Congressional Record, V. 146, Pt. 7, May 24, 2000 to June 12, 2000

As a matter of fact, Texas can expand its Medicaid coverage to the age of eighteen and cover those whose income is up to 300% of the Federal Poverty Level . ...