For years, millions of Texans have known, through difficult personal experience, that health care in Texas has challenges. Over the last six COVID-scarred months, those issues have hit home for millions more.
Famously, or rather infamously, Texas leads the nation in the number of uninsured residents. Unfortunately, for well over a decade, the health care conversation in Texas has circled around this single statistic. Is health insurance coverage important? Of course. But as this pandemic has shown - an affordable, sustainable, effective health care system requires far more than insurance coverage.
Texas badly needs such a system, and future generations of Texans ...