Helpful or Hurtful?
Tue, 2016-10-04 20:56
News Staff
The Healthcare District
By G. Romero Wendorf
It’s sort of funny, but it seems that there’s more talk about the Hidalgo County Healthcare District – good or bad – this election than there is about Hillary vs. Trump. And that’s saying something. That’s probably because the Healthcare District isn’t split along political lines, Democrat vs. Republican, while the presidential election is far more partisan.
Most, if not all, Republicans are opposed to its creation, speaking anecdotally, while Democrats aren’t in lock step for it. Again, based on comments heard out and about in the communities this newspaper covers. It’s just that the Democrats who oppose its creation and new ad valorem tax do so privately because they don’t want to be seen as being disloyal to the political party they’ve known and loved most of their entire adult lives. This includes some physicians who have spoken to The Advance, asking for condition of anonymity.
It should be said, however, that the county’s healthcare network as a whole, led by physicians