It is excruciating to read article after article about cherished, essential Vermont institutions — public schools, birth centers, Seven Days, you name it — closing, shrinking or forcing costs onto their employees due to the skyrocketing price of health insurance [From the Publisher: “What I Should Have Said,” December 3]. And it’s about to get so much worse.
Earth to Vermont legislature: How many encyclopedias’ worth of writing on the wall do you need to see before you get to work on the universal single-payer health care system we thought we’d be getting 15 years ago?
“But how will we pay for it?” How will we pay for what we have now? The fact is, we are paying already, every day, with pounds of our flesh. Get your best people on the case and start figuring it out before Vermont drops dead!
Sonia DeYoung
Burlington