The selectmen’s swindle is finally complete: Harvard’s elder teachers now get less health care coverage at a markedly greater cost, if some can obtain it at all. If it’s too expensive, they suggest, long-retired teachers should vacate their hospital beds and go out and get real jobs. And what have Harvard taxpayers saved: perhaps the price of one pair of low-grade automobile tires per household—tubeless, too. Moreover, this was a magnificently staged bloodless coup, a masterpiece. I’ll bet these officials gloat. They would have you believe this switcheroo was not required by state or town bylaw nor by treasury threat, but instead was required in the name of insurance symmetry and uniformity! They have even shed nightly (crocodile) tears over its necessity—so Chairwoman Lucy writes.
Oh, Happy Thanksgiving to each and every one of them!
And humbug!
Dr. Philip B. Temple
Pepperell
