As healthcare costs surge, Texas leaders have adopted a familiar policy response: nothing.
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Maria Betania Uzcategui Castillo, her 11-year-old stepson Victor Labrador and 8-year-old stepdaughter Victoria “Monseratt” Labrador were released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody recently. A reader says the nation needs elected officials who love their neighbors as they would themselves.
Courtesy, the office of Rep. Joaquin Castro
Nothing on health care
I received notification that Blue Cross-Blue Shield is raising my Medicare Supplemental Insurance premium by 37%.
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This increase is an “approved individual Department of Insurance rate.”
We are bombarded daily with ads from our politicians decrying transgender care, Shariah and adulterous relationships.
But what are U.S. Sen. John Cornyn or Gov. Greg Abbott doing to maintain the cost of health care, particularly for individuals on fixed incomes?
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Down with super PACs
Re: “Though targeted by Talarico, billionaires aiding his campaign,” Front Page, Tuesday:
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The super PAC situation is dismal and ugly. We would be better off if it went away.
Add one more thing to the story: Some billionaires are stepping up and saying, “Tax us.”
That they’re not taxed is not only a political failure but also a moral and ethical failure. They at least recognize it.
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Wanted: Leaders with heart
Re: “Mom, stepchildren freed from Dilley,” Front Page, May 15:
I was horrified at the continued brutality, illegality and callousness regarding the mom and two stepchildren detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while waiting for a school bus.
Before I could complain, however, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro and U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia came to the rescue.
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There still are good people in our government.
The only way I know we can help all the people incarcerated in these various detention centers is to put people in Congress who have a caring heart and truly love their neighbors as themselves.
We must ignore the gerrymandering of our voting districts and come together — Democrats, Republicans and independents — as a united people who are tired of these abusive actions.
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Suffering in the land
President Donald Trump recently said, “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.”
We know that’s a false statement.
In exchange for dropping his $10 million lawsuit against the IRS, the Department of Justice has proposed taking $1.8 billion of taxpayer money to create an Anti-Weaponization Fund for those whom Trump claims were harmed by the Department of Justice under former President Joe Biden.
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Trump clearly puts his supporters above those who are suffering. One out of 8 children in this country goes to bed hungry. In Texas, it is 1 out of 5.
Trump discards the affordable housing problems. He is not at all disturbed about the barriers to health care or the cost of insurance.
Those who support the creation of this fund should ask themselves: Is our purpose on Earth to bend our knee to power or to care for each other?
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Patricia R. Riggins, New Braunfels
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