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What to Know: Advocates for the homeless say that expanding Medicaid (a key component of the Affordable Care Act that Texas has thus far rejected) would help solve the intractable problem.
The TPPF Take: Medicaid expansion is no cure-all homelessness, if the underlying problems are not addressed.
“There is already an existing federal program for those experiencing homelessness to access free, or extremely discounted, health care,” notes TPPF’s Andrew Brown. “Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) are community-based clinics that serve designated medically underserved areas and populations and cannot deny services based on the patient’s ability to pay. The data is clear—merely increasing the number of those with coverage does not create more avenues of access or improve health outcomes.”
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