Houston builder Leo Linbeck III says he didn’t ever think he’d wade into Texas health care politics, despite his previous work with charter schools, and his namesake father’s history as co-founder of the tort reform-friendly Texans For Lawsuit Reform. Now, the self-proclaimed "conservative communitarian" is right in the middle of it as vice chairman of the national Health Care Compact Alliance. In an interview with the Tribune, Linbeck, who lectures in the MBA programs at Stanford and Rice University, pitches an interstate compact as the way to fix health care in Texas — and give the state some ...

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