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Characterizing the Texas Senate’s budget as “woefully inadequate” to meeting the care needs of Texas’ oldest, most vulnerable seniors, the Texas Health Care Association (THCA) said the bare bone funding level increase of $60 million General Revenue (GR) doesn’t connect with the facts that Texas’ Medicaid nursing home rates rank 49th lowest in the nation, and that dozens of community nursing facilities across the state seniors depend upon have closed their doors since January 2006.

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