U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey held a roundtable with various representatives in the healthcare industry last week to discuss the impact of possible cuts to Medicaid health insurance by Congress.
The roundtable, Moms & Medicaid: How Medicaid Impacts Maternal Care and Family Health, was held Friday, May 9, at The Center for Transforming Lives, 3001 S. Riverside Drive. Representatives from Texas Health, Parkland Hospital, Maternal Mortality & Morbidity Advocates, a maternal health patient advocates program, and others attended.
Veasey, a Fort Worth Democrat, says one in two births in Texas are covered under Medicaid and about 150,000 out of the 775,000 people in the 33rd Congressional District he represents are on Medicaid.