Forum, July 25: Don’t blame teachers for health costs
Published: 7/24/2021 10:00:10 PM
Modified: 7/24/2021 10:00:11 PM
Don’t blame teachers for health costs
I am weary over the annual battle with employees and unions when it comes to health insurance and benefits. It is even more infuriating when a longtime Dresden School Board member like Neil Odell has such a lack of insight and creativity to call out the teachers union over its demand for affordable health insurance (“Brace for Vt. NEA’s health care demand,” July 19).
I have written to him and to the board multiple times over the years suggesting that they join other health care organizations the Vermont chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, Health Care for All and the Vermont Workers’ Center Health Care is a Human Right campaign to extricate ourselves from this trap of escalating costs, but not the way that some would like. The sad truth is that health care insurance costs long ago spiraled
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