Mo Charnot
News, Nov. 8: “Clinic in Crisis”
Moral Obligation
There should be no reason for La Familia to have to scrape their fingernails for funding. When the people need health care and 75% of them either have Medicaid or are uninsured, the City Council, the county and the state Legislature have a moral obligation to create emergency appropriations to save continuity of care. In fact, healthy people are the foundation of a healthy and prosperous society. Ill people cannot work, cannot go to school and develop (more) stress-related conditions. Daily challenges like buying food, paying rent, staying warm, etc. snowball when individuals have compromised health and health care. We all do best when our health is optimized!
Support La Familia’s operational budget via emergency government funding now and provide annual budgeting in the long term to enhance community health care.
Susan Sattell, Santa Fe
Cover, Nov. 8: “Voters: Yes on Mansion Tax”
Good and Pretty
Check out the excise tax overwhelmingly passed by Santa Fe voters. This is good policy and pretty popular among the people. Interesting development.
Marty Peercy via X, @realmartypeercy
Feel the Love
Thank God. It’s a beginning in a city that still puts love front and center.
Dianna Woods via Instagram, @wilderwoods16
