We need people who understand that a community without healthcare is not simply underserved. It is being hollowed out. It is being told to endure the same diseases, the same emergencies, the same mental health crises, and the same human frailty as everybody else, but with fewer tools, fewer doctors, fewer hospitals, and less political urgency.

If you are running a BBQ joint in 2026, you are not opening a business so much as climbing into a fistfight with meat prices, rent, insurance, labor, delivery fees, utilities, taxes, local apathy, and the great American consumer who wants craft quality at fast-food prices while complaining that a sandwich costs more than it did when George Strait still looked like he might ride into town and fix the whole country.