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This Texas-specific shapshot highlights key facts from Dr. Arthur Laffer’s new report, “The Prognosis for National Health Insurance: A Texas Perspective.”

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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...

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Pushing Medicaid expansion and Obamacare may be in vogue, but just because they’re trendy doesn’t mean expanding these programs is sound policy. Mississippi snagged headlines recently when its state House passed a Medicaid expansion bill. Members of both the Left and the Right lauded the move, while states such as Texas have drawn harsh criticism for resisting expanding the program. In...

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The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. The media and the left spend a lot of time criticizing Texas for the number of people in the state without health insurance. Texas has the highest percentage of uninsured...

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