America’s Health Care Challenge

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By incorporating free market principles to make private insurance more affordable and pushing government programs toward efficient models of care rather than insurance, Texas can lead the way in hitting the right target-a healthy state with a healthy economy.

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Texas Has the Tools to Protect Health Data. Now We Just Need the Political Will.

Filled with anticipation, a woman in her early 30s downloads a fertility-tracking app. She and her husband are finally ready to start their young family and have a baby. Every morning she logs her cycle, her basal temperature, her symptoms. She grants the app access to her Apple Health data because the onboarding screen says...

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Texas’s rapidly growing population requires new infrastructure and improvements, which oftentimes come at great expense. To fund these projects, local officials often impose impact fees on new development—but their use comes at a cost. Key points: Texas is the fastest-growing state in the nation. As such, it has robust infrastructure requirements. To help finance capital...

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