TX Advocates Challenge Valley Chambers’ Opposition to Health Reform

Texas’ Rio Grande Valley counties have uninsured rates among the highest in the U.S., and every county is either partially or wholly designated as a medically under-served area. Despite their counties having the most to gain from health reform, last week several Rio Grande Valley Chambers of Commerce made public statements opposing national health reform.  Four Texas advocacy organizations, Texas Impact, the Center for Public Policy Priorities,  La Fe Policy Research and Education Center, and Methodist Healthcare Ministries, submitted a joint letter to these Chambers urging them to reconsider their position.

“We are astonished that Chambers of Commerce in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, of all places, would make public statements opposing national health care reform.  No area in the United States needs health care reform more than the counties that make up the Rio Grande Valley.”