Sometimes letters to the editor capture under-the-surface citizen unrest in ways that news stories often fail to do. One such example was a letter in today's Star Tribune. It's a reader reacting to an earlier op-ed piece by a health care exec. It reads:
"As the director of a nonprofit whose employee benefits expenses for HMO medical insurance through Allina/Medica have doubled since 2000, I find it highly disturbing that part of my business costs are not allocated for health but instead are used to pay for an executive vice president of law and public policy at Allina, Mary Foarde, so she can write articles (Opinion Exchange, July 29) dismissing single-payer.Posted by schwitz at August 5, 2007 09:00 AM | TrackBackIn contrast, fees I must pay per employee for Medicare do not lead to any such waste of executive expense, which is one reason Medicare -- with its single-payer structure -- is enormously popular and faces no "huge political opposition" -- in absolute contradiction to Foarde's column and other empty propaganda put forward by the self-serving, profit-driven, health care industry."