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• Missed opportunities in the 84th Texas Legislature

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  Tuesday, June 2, 2015 4:26:00 PM

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  By Tom Banning
  TAFP CEO/EVP

  Yogi Berra famously said I hate making predictions, especially about the future. It’s particularly painful when those predictions come true as was the case for many of the predictions TAFP made at the outset of the 84th Texas Legislature on how health care issues would fare this session.

  Playing to their primary voters, the House and Senate focused attention almost solely on tax cuts, border security, transportation, when and where you can carry a gun, and a host of other mostly inconsequential partisan ideas.

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