To The Editor:
I thank the editor of The Valley Reporter for the editorial in the November 6 edition, “It’s the health care, stupid.” This little modification of that catchphrase from James Carville, former President Bill Clinton’s political strategist in Clinton’s 1992 campaign, says it all. At long last, someone else other than activists for a universal publicly-funded system for all in Vermont like me has said “Education is not the issue; health care costs are the issue.”
We have been voices crying out in the wilderness to deaf ears for so long a time. We’ve cried out in vain as our state government has treated education as the issue, ignoring the tremendous burden of health care cost places on us. Instead, they’ve given us experiments like the costly failure of OneCare and these redistricting schemes like Act 46 and Act 73. Act 46 has not controlled costs. Act 73 probably will not control them either; both failed to see that “health care costs are the issue.”
“It’s the health care, stupid.” It is our treating our medical care, and our lives, as a market bizarre, so that a few can get huge salaries and bonuses, for something that should be a fundamental human right. We must continue to hammer this mantra home until we cannot be ignored any longer.
Walter Carpenter
Montpelier
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