Texas removed over 1 million children from the state’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) over the course of two years, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. (1) More than 1 in 4 (27%) of children were disenrolled between March 2023 and June 2025. During the COVID-19 pandemic, states were required by federal rules to keep Medicaid recipients continually enrolled, even if their eligibility status changed. That mandate expired in March 2023, allowing states to remove indi ...