Millions of Texans — mostly children, young adults and new moms — stayed on Medicaid for the duration of the pandemic. The state will soon start reevaluating eligibility.
Show LessShe returned from vacation in January 2020 to learn she’d been laid off from her corporate job in the Austin area. Her car was totaled in an accident. At the same time, she found out she was pregnant with her first child.
Robertson accessed crucial health care during and after pregnancy — and straight through her next pregnancy. It’s then that many of her clients learn about other diagnoses, like diabetes and high blood pressure, which require long-term care. The pregnancy itself may introduce or exacerbate health concerns, like gestational diabetes or postpartum depression.
“Obviously, once the baby’s born, she still has Type 1 diabetes and she still needs insulin,” Crompton said. “So for her, it was literally lifesaving that she got pregnant and then because of COVID was able to stay with the continued Medicaid coverage.” At Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, they’ve noticed moms and babies are coming into pregnancy and childbirth healthier than ever, said Marjorie Quint-Bouzid, the senior vice president for women’s and infants specialty health.
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