Charles Miller

Director

charles.miller@texas2036.org

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Children’s health insurance eligibility is broken. Here’s how to fix it.

March 30, 2021

The following testimony was provided to the Texas House Committee on Human Services on March 30, 2021. Texas 2036 submits these written comments in support of HB 290. Texas 2036 is a non-partisan public policy organization designed to bring together the sensible center on data-driven policies. Texas 2036 views the health care policy space as...

New Federal Medicaid Proposals Could Provide Texas Over $3.5 Billion

March 19, 2021

UPDATE (March 19, 2021) We previously analyzed the potential impact of language under consideration by Congress. As that language has been finalized and signed into law, we have learned more details about the potential financial impact to Texas. Accordingly, we are updating our estimates as follows: We previously had estimated that the impact to state...

CBO report on insurance impacts from COVID19 pandemic

How has the COVID-19 pandemic and associated job loss impacted health insurance coverage in Texas?

December 21, 2020

Here’s a frequent question I get from Texans about health care and health insurance: “How has the pandemic impacted our uninsured rate?” The answer is … it’s complicated. Here at Texas 2036, we always start with examining the data – and the data on this is all over the place1: In May, the Kaiser Family...