Medicaid a 'no-win dilemma' for Texas, state study finds

The Dallas Morning News reports:

Up to 2.6 million Texans could lose health coverage if the state opts out of Medicaid, but rising costs make the program very hard to maintain, a new state study warns.

Texas faces "a no-win dilemma" because withdrawing from Medicaid would mean a loss of about $15 billion in federal funds a year, representing about one-tenth of the state's health care sector, said the report released by two state agencies Friday. And that would allow other states to siphon off that money, some of it from Texas taxpayers.