The Texas Tribune: Texas Limits Are Squeezing the Elderly Poor and Their Doctors

Reynaldo Leal for The Texas Tribune
Texas has cut its share of co-payments for such patients, and Dr. Javier Saenz's practice is suffering.

After Dr. Javier Saenz completed his family-medicine residency in 1985, he returned home to the Rio Grande Valley to open a practice in the impoverished town of La Joya.



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Reynaldo Leal for The Texas Tribune
Half of the patients seen by Dr. Saenz, right, qualify for Medicare and

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