What happens to my family's healthcare?
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Your family’s healthcare keeps running, because it is already delivered by Texans, in Texas, under Texas medical boards. Independence changes who sets the policy, not who provides the care.
The care is already here
Your hospitals, doctors, nurses, and clinics are in Texas, licensed by Texas boards. Washington does not deliver medical care in Texas. It funds and regulates parts of it from a distance, and independence puts that slice under the same roof as the system Texas already runs.
Earned benefits are protected, coverage continues
For Texans on Medicare, the earned benefit you paid for is protected, and the care is delivered here in Texas. For families on Medicaid, which Texas already administers and funds in large part, coverage continues through the transition. No senior, and no Texan on Medicaid, loses access in the handoff.
The bottom line
Your family keeps its doctors, its hospitals, and its coverage. Independence changes the management, not the medicine. The full healthcare answer has the detail.
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