Letter to Senator John Cornyn and Senator Ted Cruz

Dear Senator John Cornyn and Senator Ted Cruz,
Texas leads this country in successfully privatizing its Medicaid Program. The undersigned members of the Texas Association of Community Health Plans are private Texas insurers providing Medicaid health coverage to more than one million Texans. Our companies, also known by Medicaid regulators as Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), focus clinical and administrative management strategies on healthcare quality improvement and cost containment.
This Medicaid-funded insurance through Texas companies enables thousands of Texas doctors, nurses, and health care professionals to care for our most vulnerable citizens. We are honored that the success of Texas Medicaid Managed Care has led healthcare leaders from other states to visit us to learn from our track record of achieving significant savings by using private sector models and incentives. As an example, between FY2010 and FY2015, Texas Medicaid MCOs saved the state $3.8 billion and are expected to save another $3.3 billion through 2018 when compared to traditional fee-for-service Medicaid.
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