OneCare, Vermont’s billion-dollar answer to prepay doctors to keep patients healthy in a country with almost no safety net left, must expire before its costs explode us.
Vermont loves paying low hourly wages. Three hundred new multimillionaires just moved into Vermont. Perhaps we need a state structure to teach the millionaires how to run their groceries through the pay line, mow their lawns, weed their gardens and iRobot their floors.
We, as retirees, pay $400-plus monthly (too much on a fixed income) each to have health insurance — Medicare. We need Medicare for All, and health professionals will be paid salaries plus benefits for their work. We cannot pay 10 percent health premium increases in our taxes yearly for the governor’s friends making piles of health care dollars. Those 300 multimillionaires can clearly sustain higher taxes — not $8,000 on a modest house with 10 acres, ineligible for forestry or farming subsidies.
OneCare is a rich man’s health monopoly dream come true and a citizen’s nightmare.
Vicki Ward
Bethel