It’s revenue care, not well being care

I thank Invoice Schubart for his commentary “Specializing in three factors might actually assist repair Vermont (Digger, March 6). 

The half on well being care is particularly true. As Mr. Schubart wrote: “In well being care, any future imaginative and prescient should be seen by the eyes of those that want it, use it, and supply it, not solely by the eyes of those that administer it or revenue from it.”

That is widespread sense. It ought to by no means must be acknowledged, whether or not by Mr. Schubart or anybody else. But, our well being system is much less about well being care and extra about revenue take care of “those that administer it or revenue from it.” It’s a large heist of our cash in co-pays, deductibles, charges, premiums and taxes by our medical-industrial advanced and our political system that feeds so properly off of this advanced.

I have no idea if Mr. Schubart’s options change any of this. Shrugging it off to attend for the federal authorities to behave won’t do any good, particularly since this authorities underneath a Democratic Congress and president is subtly attempting to dump our Medicare to Wall Avenue. “Worth-based care” or “international budgets” received’t assist both. Neither will schemes just like the Inexpensive Care Act. 

What is going to work is that common sense method of well being care being for these “who want it, use it, and supply it,” the place we’re not thought-about as disposable assets for revenue, however human beings.

Walter Carpenter

Montpelier