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By David Balat Doctors know that the key to a cure is the right prescription, administered at the right time. When it comes to the Texas health care system, expanding Medicaid is the wrong prescription — and it couldn’t come at a worse time. What’s a more effective approach? Improving Medicaid, so that it better serves those it’s meant to help, and expanding options for uninsured Texans without overloading our Medicaid system. First, the malady. Medicaid is an important program that was...

By Glenn W. Smith In her short story, “The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas,” Ursula K. Le Guin imagined a city of perpetual peace and harmony. There was only one catch. The happiness of Omelas depended on the torture and imprisonment of a single child locked alone in a dark basement. It’s a provocative story that raises the question, “Is it moral to guarantee the happiness of the many at the cost of the inhuman treatment of a single innocent?” In light of that story, consider this: T...