Opinion
Health Care Agenda for All
The national debate over health care reform is intensifying as President Obama presses ahead with an ambitious agenda for overhauling a system that has grown so enormous and so complicated that it is impossible to understand all the working parts.
Compromise Needed
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I am writing a follow-up to your editorial in the August 11 issue of the Gazette, relating to the deepening division on Chappaquiddick. It is important that the Chappy community come to some consensus on the issue of whether or not a bike path is desired.
We are all aware that runaway national health care costs and the need to increase access to care are the main reasons for health reform. Martha’s Vineyard health care providers are certainly feeling the effects of rising costs on a local level. We have read recently in the local papers about how expensive procedures are at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and how budget stressed the folks at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services are.
BAKERS RESPOND
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
From a 1964 Gazette Column by Joseph Chase Allen:
There are inhabitants of the Island, especially of Vineyard Haven, who can recall a rather tumbledown but relatively large wharf far down the shore below the town’s present small boat basin.
NO POSITION
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter was sent to Mark Forrest, chief of staff for Cong. Bill Delahunt:
I understand that Congressman Delahunt, my representative, has failed to indicate his position on the House health care initiative. I find this unconscionable at a time when we are all considering its merits and faults. Fence sitting at this time appears indecisive at best and cowardly at worst. Do you not think his constituents deserve better?
Hadden Blair
West Tisbury