Letters for May 11, 2017

Playing kick the can

Re “Rousted once again” by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, May 4):

This article highlights, like the hundreds before it, that our civic leaders do not have any viable solutions to our homelessness problems. This has been an ongoing issue for the last 30 years, and all we have done is to kick the can down the road. World-class city? Not when you have men, women and children living and sleeping on our streets daily, monthly, yearly.

Victor Morales

Sacramento

Tip of the iceberg

Re “Rousted once again,” by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, May 4):

If over 13,000 [homeless people] signed up for the new CalFresh program, when most don’t even have an address or ready access to news, I feel certain that the real number is many times more. As rents continue to go up and the government appears to be working overtime to cut poor folks off at the knees, this problem can only get much, much worse.

George Selkirk

Carmichael

It’s Obama’s fault

Re “Trump gropes repro rights,” by Mozes Zarate (News, May 4):

So let me get this right: The issue is that the reimbursement rates from Medi-Cal (NOT TRUMP) are too low to pay for the services. Then, Obamacare came into effect, causing a huge number of additional “clients,” as stated in the article. The expansion of Medi-Cal was a choice of California fully knowing that federal subsidy ends after a few years and the responsibility for paying for the Medi-Cal expansion rested solely on the state (NOT TRUMP).

If anyone is responsible for closing these clinics, it is Obama, by promising more free (to the clients) services, and the Dems in California not wanting to actually pay the tab they previously agreed to pay.

Bill Bixbe

Sacramento

They’ll want revenge

If Trump and the Republicans manage to repeal Obamacare, a lot of people are going to end up dead. And the friends and families of those dead people are going to come looking for the members of Congress who caused their death, and they are not going to be happy.

Marc Perkel

Gilroy

‘Political hatchet job’

The repeal of the Affordable Care Act is a farce and political hatchet job. This is not about health care; this is another Republican witch hunt. House Republican politicians have screwed 10 million Americans out of health care coverage, all in an effort to please and play to an extremist Republican base of Obamahaters.

Ron Lowe

Nevada City