Do your job on health care, Congress

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Do your job on health care, Congress

Under all the Republican health-care plans, people on Medicaid would loss coverage — if not right away, then within a few years. This would not only have harmed the patients, it would harm the economy. Those people were seeking medical care, which in turn created jobs in the medical care fields.

Should the states have more say in health-care dollars and how they’re spent? Possibly, but as Kentucky is currently busy trying to shut down Planned Parenthood in the state, I do’'t think it would be a good idea. Do Republicans hate all women, or just poor women? I don’t trust these people to handle any part of health care.

Congress should have been using the last several months to fix the problems with the Affordable Care Act, creating one good bill that people agree on. Instead, everyone is trying to score cheap political points, at the expense of constituents. Do your jobs. For once, just do your jobs.

Kathi Ailts

Lexington

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Schaeffer column on tribalism draws responses. Also, thoughts on respectful firefighters, McConnell, border wall

By Herald-Leader readers

February 22, 2019 11:51 AM

Expansive identity

Because of our experience as Peace Corps volunteers and staff living and working in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Fiji, and our experience since of knowing immigrants as good friends and family, we have a much broader idea of identity than what Cameron S. Schaeffer described in his recent Herald-Leader commentary (“Tribalism and media prejudice ruining America”, Feb. 16).

We know it’s possible for immigrant citizens to feel connected to and contribute to both the United States and their countries of origin. It is even possible for those who are American-born to be connected to and contribute to the United States and another country. We know an immigrant from Libya who has lived in Lexington for 35 years and says, “I value this country in a different way than people who were born here because I have seen both sides. There is nothing wrong with loving two countries.” Another says, “I am from South Sudan but I am also American. It’s both of me. I have to stand in the middle.”