(Ed. note: This column by Rep. Garnet Coleman ran in last week's issue of Texas Weekly, which asked four policy and legislative experts the same question: What version of health care reform would be best for Texas?)

A reporter once noted that Governor Perry, when asked a question he did not want to answer, often replied, "It is what it is." For the past nine years, that has also been the frustrating answer millions of uninsured and underinsured Texans received when they asked the governor and the state's Republican leadership, "What about healthcare?"

It's an answer of ...

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