2/ Republican leaders in Texas have for years opposed expanding publicly funded health insurance coverage to the poor.— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) March 10, 2020
Roughly 5 million Texans don’t have health insurance — a disproportionately large share of people. https://t.co/fLXqMPJB10
4/ Nearly 800 scientists, doctors and lawyers recently wrote in an open letter to the Trump administration that “control efforts will be less effective if some fail to seek appropriate diagnosis or care due to large out-of-pocket costs or copays.” https://t.co/fLXqMPs09s— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) March 10, 2020
6/ The problem?— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) March 10, 2020
Experts say a significant portion of Texas’ massive uninsured population likely does not have a primary care doctor to make that call.
The state’s testing capacity is also currently limited. https://t.co/fLXqMPJB10
8/8 @RodneyRohde, an infectious disease expert at @txst, said the strategy of infectious disease containment can only be effective at the beginning of an outbreak: “This is not abnormal. This is what [viruses] do.” https://t.co/fLXqMPJB10— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) March 10, 2020