Gerson’s article

Editor:

I read with interest Michael Gerson’s article in the Nov. 8 Green Valley News titled “Funding health care reform on the backs of the young.”

What the article left out is the very important fact that many of those who are now over 50 years old carried the burden for the young for at least the first 18 years of their lives by paying insurance premiums, in some cases paying out hard-earned cash and taxes to help provide medical care for those who could not afford it.

The cycle will repeat itself as time goes on, making this arrangement Mr. Gerson condemns, as I see it, fair to all.

Of course, there are those who will “reach” to find reasons to stop our badly needed health care reform and the article is just another such example.

I wonder if his concerns for the continued funding and consequential future tax burden of two open-ended wars started by the previous administration, which have killed and maimed thousands, is as intense as his objection to a program with the intended goal of helping people cope with the ever-increasing burden of medical expenses.

Marie Drummond, Green Valley