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For 70 hours straight, caregiver works through exhaustion to help women in Texas Medicaid program
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December 21, 2022
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5:03Now PlayingTre’Asia Anderson starts her day caring for two disabled women at 8:16 a.m. on a Tuesday. When she leaves on Friday at 10:08 a.m., she’ll have stopped working just twice in 70 hours, once for a nap and another time to run errands.
She makes $9 per hour, and $15.50 per hour for overtime.
“Even though I get that $9 — that I’m very upset with — I’m going to stay here and do my job with love, kindness and respect,” Anderson says.
A yearlong Statesman investigation found that the Texas "waiver system" — a set of six Medicaid-funded programs created in the 1980s as a safer alternative to institutional care — is jeopardizing the safety of thousands of vulnerable clients and their caregivers. Built on the backs of low-paid, overworked and often undertrained caregivers, the system is collapsing from decades of underfunding and lax oversight.
Read Anderson's story and learn more about health care issues facing Texas residents in our "Disabled and Abandoned" series
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