Texans hold their own ‘public hearing’ at the Capitol to demand Medicaid expansion

AUSTIN— Breanna Boyd remembers the impossible choice when she got a UTI. On Thursday, advocacy groups organized their own“ public hearing” at the Capitol to demand state lawmakers expand Medicaid to cover an estimated 1.4 million low-income adults who are uninsured. Texas is one of 11 states that refused expansion, effectively leaving a swath of adults living…