{"id":46,"date":"2026-10-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2026-10-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:00:00","slug":"gov-greg-abbott-doubles-down-his-support-on-rare-public-fight-for-medicaid-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/05\/gov-greg-abbott-doubles-down-his-support-on-rare-public-fight-for-medicaid-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Greg Abbott doubles down his support on rare public fight for Medicaid funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Texas is fighting to recover nearly $10 billion in Medicaid funding withheld by the federal government, which questions the state&#039;s hospital tax calculations. The funds help hospitals cover costs for Medicaid patients and are delayed, costing hospitals $27 million daily. Texas officials assert compliance with federal law, while federal agencies seek assurance on fund use. The dispute follows federal Medicaid cuts and affects hospital funding amid Texas&#039; high uninsured rate.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/texas\/2026\/09\/02\/gov-greg-abbott-doubles-down-his-support-on-rare-public-fight-for-medicaid-funding\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas is fighting to recover nearly $10 billion in Medicaid funding withheld by the federal government, which questions the state&#039;s hospital tax calculations. The funds help hospitals cover costs for Medicaid patients and are delayed, costing hospitals $27 million daily. Texas officials assert compliance with federal law, while federal agencies seek assurance on fund use. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suralegacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}