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.
Harris County is Creating a Culture of Dependency
Famed free-market economist Thomas Sowell once remarked that “Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency.” Sowell’s insight is not only correct, but it’s also a fitting lens through which to view Harris County’s new guaranteed income pilot program, Uplift Harris. To start, Uplift Harris is...