Thomason Hospital District and other health-care providers filed a lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court, alleging the state's new and reduced Medicaid reimbursement rates discriminate against El Paso's poor by denying them equal access to health care. El Paso County Attorney José Rodríguez filed the suit against Albert Hawkins, chairman of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, after the hospital board voted unanimously to proceed with legal action. The county hospital stands to lose the most because it is the main health-care provider for low-income and indigent people, and could be forced to raise property taxes to offset the...