CANCEL MEDICAID
CONTRACTS
Under oath, Kay Molina, Deputy Executive Commissioner for HHSC’s Procurement and Contracting Services Division, told a legislative committee last year, “If we are trying to be fair and competitive, [the law] doesn’t really provide for that.”
That’s outrageous. Texas needs competition in Medicaid. Encourage your elected officials to:
Cancel uncompetitive Medicaid procurements that penalized top-performers
Demand real competition that stops Lina Hidalgo's billion-dollar failures
Support top-tier children's hospital plans to treat vulnerable Texans
Harris County’s government-run health plan is the worst performer in Texas — but still gets guaranteed billions in taxpayer funds from the state.
Your legislators can stop this. Demand action now.
TEXANS DESERVE BETTER HEALTHCARE
CHC: A failing health plan that gets handed your tax BILLIONS
Billions in Medicaid money. No competition. No accountability.
In 1997, a backroom amendment guaranteed big-city counties automatic Medicaid contracts – no matter how badly their health plans perform.
Harris County’s Community Health Choice (CHC), run by Lina Hidalgo’s hospital district, is one of the WORST in Texas. Yet it keeps raking in BILLIONS.
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Meanwhile, top-performing providers like Texas Children’s Hospital are LOCKED OUT – shut down by rigged contracts and a broken state health agency. That same agency has botched six procurement rounds in less than a decade and just lost a court case for violating 13 state laws.
This is failure rewarded. It’s time to cancel the contracts.
Tell your legislator: Hold Lina Hidalgo accountable. Cancel the Contracts. Let the best plans serve Texas families.
NO STANDARDS?
NO PROBLEM!
A state Medicaid official admitted UNDER OATH that the state ignores the quality of care when it decides which health plans get billions in taxpayer cash.
Reminder: these contracts are supposed to serve our poorest and neediest.
THIS IS WHAT THEY SAID:
Q. Before the passage of Rider 20, HHSC had never used in any managed care procurement the quality of care and cost efficiency benchmarks that it was statutorily required to develop, had it?
A. We have not used them as -- to my knowledge, as a separate component of our -- or -- as a component of our procurement.
Q. And after the passage of Rider 20, HHSC has still never used, in even a single managed care procurement, the quality of care and cost efficiency benchmarks that it was statutorily required to develop, has it?
A. We have not.
— Jimmy Blanton (Director of HHSC’s Office of Value-Based Initiatives, Services)
CHC rated dead last. Taxpayers still fund it.
CHC is just one of multiple failing state-wide Medicaid contracts that suck up billions of wasted dollars. Ask your legislators to cancel these contracts and help put your hard earned money back into the plans that help the most vulnerable.
Ask your legislators to CANCEL ALL these contracts and help put your hard earned money back into the plans that help the most vulnerable.
