Years ago, Texas hustled to get kids on state health care. Now it’s kicking them off.

August Johansen looks through the glass door of the birthday venue while cradling a balloon on Dec. 9, 2023. He had inoperable brain cancer and depended on Medicaid to pay for full-time home nursing care from a private agency to help his mother take care of him throughout years of health crises. Last December, he became one of 810,000 children dropped from Texas’ Medicaid program…