COVID-19 Exposes Republican Failure to Deal with Health Care Crisis in Texas

One of the most damaging ways conservative state leaders left Texas unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic is the state’s sky-high number of people without health insurance. And that’s getting worse: many Texans who are losing their jobs are joining the already massive ranks of the uninsured. This is a public health catastrophe — one compounded […]

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Politics, Race and Republican Leaders’ Sorry Response to COVID-19 in Texas

While many local leaders in the state’s largest cities and counties acted swiftly to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Texas early on, the reactions of state Republican leaders to the crisis was much slower. Then after belatedly issuing a shelter-at-home order and closing nonessential businesses, Gov. Abbott and other Republican leaders have apparently decided […]

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