To the editor: Joel Edward Goza presents a superb comparison and history of the Reagan Revolution policies and Project 2025, and the position of the Heritage Basis in each.
Ignored, nevertheless, is the element that the medical insurance security web of Medicaid for lower-income People was slashed by President Ronald Reagan and made inaccessible to all however essentially the most destitute People for many years.
Not till 30 years later did Obamacare reinstate that useful resource for residents of the states that selected to care about their peoples’ well being. Shamefully, 10 states nonetheless refuse to care concerning the well being of their low-income residents.
I do know this reality as a result of Medicaid paid for my life-saving most cancers surgical procedure in 1980 after I was a low-income pupil. Two years later, I wouldn’t have been eligible for help, as Reagan had reduce this system.
Sally Richman, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Goza calls Reagan an “engineer of disaster.” Are you kidding me? It’s arduous to consider you’ll print such an article.
I lived in Los Angeles within the Nineteen Eighties, and Reagan’s presidency, particularly his second time period, was a time when the world was booming. Within the late Nineteen Eighties, L.A. County was the nation’s largest manufacturing heart.
Publishing op-ed articles like that is abdicating your journalistic integrity.
Chris Richgels, Scottsdale, Ariz.
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To the editor: The article was not full. The creator forgot to incorporate the truth that U.S. gross nationwide product went up by practically 500% from 1989 to 2024. That quantity is instantly confirmable.
Additionally, who desires to return to the great outdated days earlier than Reagan’s presidency when the federal government may take 70% of the revenue you made within the highest tax bracket?
Jerre Reimers, Simi Valley
