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We deserve nothing less than Medicare for all The U.S. healthcare system is broken.
26 million people in the U.S. are uninsured, and another 44 million are underinsured.
Too many families are burdened by sky-high insurance premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket costs, while others face medical debt and bankruptcy. Even those with insurance are often forced to forgo necessary care because they simply cannot afford it. Medicare for All is the solution we need.
It would ensure comprehensive health care benefits — including medical, dental, vision, hearing, mental health, long-term care and reproductive care — for everyone in the U.S. It would eliminate restrictive medical networks, giving us the freedom to choose our providers.
Most importantly, it would save families and our country money while finally putting patients’ needs above the profits of insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Politicians must listen to the will of the people, not the interests of insurance and pharmaceutical corporations. Medicare for All would end the injustice of a system that prioritizes profit over patients.
It’s time for bold action. Americans are demanding it, and we deserve nothing less. It is a matter of human rights.
Kira LiVecchi, Boulder Closing pools and rec centers doesn’t make sense Parks and Rec web pages claim their goal is to “take care of what we have.” Why isnt the south Boulder Rec center included in this goal? Why doesn’t taking care of what we have mean providing our increasing population swimming facilities and courts rather than closing them? P and R “rehabilitated” our Central Park (between the Municipal Center and the library) by cutting the old trees and putting in chainlink and landscaping hills making the park less safe and uninviting. Why is the P and R department spending what I have heard to be $18 million to redevelop the rest of our historic (and beautiful) Central Park when what our parks need is safety and access for children and parents not humps and chains? Why is the department spending $18 million on Central Park ( just the East side of Broadway) when they want to close the South Boulder Rec center for lack of funds? Caring for what we have makes sense.
Closing pools and rec centers doesn’t. Wasting money redesigning our functioning well designed, historic parks doesn’t make sense either. Fran Mandel Sheets, Boulder County Commissioners axe air pollution monitoring The Boulder Commissioners have decided to discontinue the air pollution and climate gas monitoring at the Boulder Reservoir for 2025, a surprising decision because Climate Action and Environmental Stewarding is one of their declared top three priorities for 2025.
In lieu of actual measurements of health- and climate-harming air pollutants, it appears that Boulder has turned to an inventory method of estimating the metric tons of carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide equivalent Green House Gases (GHGs) which are sometimes criticized for under-reporting (such as not reporting carbon released associated with the upcoming four prescribed burns). The metric tons of GHG are summarized in the Boulder Community Green House Gas Emissions Report along with very ambitious goals to reduce emissions over the years. Boulder Commissioners, please reconsider your decision to defund this important and long-term air monitoring program.
At a minimum, please meet with and listen to the public and experts to discuss its value and what will be lost. Given the steady increase of GHGs everywhere, now is the time to monitor carbon dioxide and other GHGs in order to get a direct measurement for comparison to the inventory estimations in the Community report for the years to come. Actual measurements of chemicals in the air at the Boulder Reservoir greatly complement the inventory method of estimating GHG emissions.
What would be stellar is if actual accurate direct measurements of carbon dioxide and other GHGs and research done by experts would show dropping trends in our air that were consistent with Boulder’s Community report estimations. Just two weeks ago a front-page story in the Daily Camera stated Boulder has cut greenhouse gas emissions by 24% since 2018 based on the estimations. Now is an ideal time to add carbon dioxide direct measurement.
Kathy Bo, Broomfield.
