Letters to the Editor | Aug. 27, 2026

For many years, Canada has been our closest and certainly among our best allies. It is deeply saddening to see the foolish disrespect shown to that country through the outrageous tariffs that have been imposed by our current administration.

If there is a solution to this issue, I do not know what it is. However, I will happily purchase Canadian maple syrup and other products as a show of support.

These tariff wars are not helping our country or anyone else’s.

Hoping and praying for a return to common sense, economically and otherwise. And I’m looking forward to voting in November, too.

Margaret Zanoni, Edgewater Park

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision allows private insurers to push new dialysis patients — those who take frequent treatments for kidney failure to survive — off their plans they’ve worked hard to keep. It’s a direct assault on the lives of dialysis patients across America. Forcing patients off their private insurance immediately after diagnosis — often within months — is unjust.

I’ve lived on dialysis for over four years, endured the pain of needles tearing through my skin twice daily, and fought to keep my dignity in a system that often prioritizes profits over people. I’ve been lucky: I served this country and have good healthcare coverage with Veterans Affairs. But many are losing private insurance coverage, and they’re left to pay the 20% Medicare doesn’t cover. It’s a crushing financial burden that jeopardizes their access to lifesaving treatments and, crucially, their standing on transplant lists.

We are not statistics or profit centers. We are mothers, fathers, veterans, neighbors — human beings demanding the right to life, which means the right to healthcare. U.S. Rep. Herb Conaway should cosponsor and help pass the Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act. This bipartisan bill would stop insurers from pushing vulnerable patients into chaos and ensure fewer dialysis patients are forced to bear the heavy burden of unnecessary financial distress.

C. Andre Daniels, Westampton

Donald Trump seems to want his name all over everything and everywhere. At the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a judge told him no, but Trump found a way around the judge by listing himself as a renovator — tacky. Now, Trump wants a previously named aircraft carrier to be named for him. That the USS Doris Miller was to be named for a Black World War II hero but might instead be changed to honor a president who avoided serving in the Vietnam War reeks of the racism that permeates everything touched by Trump. I can imagine the president offering a trade with Miller’s family — the name of the ship in exchange for the Medal of Honor. What’s in a name? Plenty — duty, honor, respect. Doris Miller earned our respect.

Sheryl Kalick, Philadelphia

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