Eli Okun, The Texas Tribune

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Even without expanding Medicaid, Texas sees 80K new enrollees

More than 80,000 additional Texans have enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program since the rollout of the Affordable Care Act last fall despite Republican state leaders’ decision not to expand eligibility to poor adults, according to federal figures.  The 80,435 new enrollees as of May — mostly Texans who already qualified for coverage but did not […]