Opinion

America’s health care system is stuck in the past and long overdue for transformation. Despite remarkable advancements in medical science and technology, its structural foundation remains frozen in time, built on mid-20th-century policy decisions that prioritized hospital construction and highly specialized care over preventive, community-based primary care. This deep misalignment between how we pay for care and what people actually need isn’t just inefficient — it’s costing us dearly in both dollars and lives.

Whether they’re living “Somewhere Down in Texas” or it’s just their exes who live in Texas, when Americans think of country music, they think of George Strait. Known as one of the most successful artists of all time and the King of Country Music, George Harvey Strait Sr. is a Texas treasure and cultural icon, representing the very best of the Lone Star State.

From the moment he learned to walk, Jules was a daredevil, always pulling off feats of derring-do. He came by it naturally. His father was a gymnastics instructor who also operated a swimming pool in the French city of Toulouse.