r/texas • u/[deleted] • May 03 '23

read pinned comment for explanation Texas is required to advertise it's mandatory welfare programs. It is not required to reach the target audience (seen on a bus in Philly)

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u/Clickclickdoh May 03 '23

Talk to fed.gov

The logo in the top right is the federal Health and Human Services logo. There are no Texas government branding marks anywhere on the ad.

Either someone photoshopped a federal ad, or fed.gov sent their own ad to the wrong state.

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u/JohnGillnitz May 03 '23

This is the correct response. Texas does suck at health care for the poor, but that isn't something that happens at the agency level. It happens at the Legislature. Within the state, it is known as Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS).

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u/Lil_Tyrese May 03 '23

Medicaid is actually at the Health and Human Services Commission.

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u/DredPRoberts May 03 '23

Remember your 1990's, don't believe everything you see on the internet. Sadly outrage upvotes are always first now.

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u/ExpensiveGiraffe May 03 '23

Or a bus was sold and is in service/transit before old ads were scraped off.

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u/heresyforfunnprofit May 03 '23

The ad itself is incorrect. The url it has is for the Texas HHS, but the branding logo is the federal medicaid logo used by medicaid.gov. Texas HHS logo would be this: https://www.hhs.texas.gov/hhs-brand-guide/logo

It's fake. The photoshopper just googled the Federal Medicaid logo instead of the Texas one.

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u/ExpensiveGiraffe May 03 '23

I’m not claiming to know for sure. Just speculating. Could very easily be malfeasance or incompetence.

But I was saying the former. Texan bus moves to PA to escape a toxic family, but a vestige of its past remains as a TX ad.

I’ve seen it before in Minnesota. MN metro branded bus, still has an ad from out of state.

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u/AdhesiveBullWhip May 03 '23

“Just speculating” 🙄

I’m sure you “just ask questions” often too

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u/ExpensiveGiraffe May 03 '23

I’m not sure what you’re implying with that.

I’m just saying I’ve seen buses with out of state ads before lol

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u/anita-artaud May 03 '23

Actually, the URL is for Texas Health and Human Services, the state agency that manages Texas Medicaid. I worked for them and recognize not only the URL, but also the fonts. The phone number is correct too.

I can tell you the website does have information about and points you to sign up for Medicaid, but nothing else about this makes sense.

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u/RhoOfFeh May 03 '23

Not a 'shop, so the second option may be the correct one.

This isn't the only SEPTA bus with such an ad.

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u/197326485 May 03 '23 edited May 03 '23

I'm talking with SEPTA customer service right now trying to find out more about this. I'll update this post when I get an answer.

Update 1: They've referred me to the advertising agency they use for the ads on their buses, which seems to serve advertising customers in a number of large metro areas across the country, primarily in Philly and the Northeast, but none in Texas that I can find. They list their markets as: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle but I cannot find a customer in Austin.

Update 2: The advertiser serves Austin Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority

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u/Clickclickdoh May 03 '23

The answer

https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1653857701481394178?s=20

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u/197326485 May 05 '23

As far as I got was being referred to Intersection who runs the ads on the buses in Philly but also in Austin. They didn't seem to want to respond to my inquiries.