Texans brace for the end of nearly three years of pandemic Medicaid coverage

One day, Alexandria Robertson’s carefully crafted life suddenly started falling apart.

She returned from vacation in January 2020 to learn she’d been laid off from her corporate job in the Austin area. Her car was totaled in an accident. At the same time, she found out she was pregnant with her first child.

“I was pregnant. I had no job. I had no car. And I had no health insurance,” Robertson said. “I at the time just did not have money for the expenses of having a baby.”