AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Teresa Little needs Texas Medicaid services if she doesn't want to lose her granddaughter to a devastating degenerative disease she says is lethal combination of muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis and cancer all rolled into one.
But a state House budget slated for a vote within days would severely cut health care funding for the state's poorest citizens, including children.
Little, who has permanent custody of her grandchildren, spoke to hundreds of health care advocates rallying at the Capitol Wednesday and warned that cuts of such magnitude will have disastrous consequences for the state's children.
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