Mary Katherine Stout, director of the Center for Health Care Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, presented testimony before the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services regarding Medicaid reform, September 19, 2006.
Economy
Don’t Fence Me In: Lianne’s Story
Family, then finances—and opportunity. Those are what brought Lianne Halpern back to tiny Shamrock, a small, dusty stop on the famous Route 66 in the Texas panhandle. Like generations of Americans before, Lianne and her family had traveled west along that route in search of the golden promises of California. Lianne’s father worked in the...
January 29, 2026