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Only material that includes a self- addressed, stamped envelope will be returned. Unless otherwise requested, all submitted material becomes the property of Vermont Sports Magazine, LLC and its affi liates. Copyright 2009 Vermont Sports M agazine, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. A Member of On the Cover: Nancy Friedman of Ogunquit, ME, enjoying an early morning row on Waterbury Reservoir. Photo by Kate Carter, courtesy of Alden Rowing Shells. September 2009 Vermont Sports 3 EDITOR COMMENTARY BY KATE CARTER ACCIDENTS HAPPEN, SO SHOULD INSURANCE iven a recent mishap, I February, and I was facing its fi rst another ER visit. Thirteen stitches selling my road bike, my mountain now feel qualifi ed to chime test. I give it an “A.” and four hours later I was on my way bike, my canoe, and my skis in order Gin on the current debate Nurses and doctors tended to me home, feeling fortunate that the in- to pay my bills. over affordable health care insur- as soon as I arrived at Copley. Once jury wasn’t worse. My damaged ego Accidents like mine happen ev- ance. Without thinking and in my the Phentanol took effect, I could was another matter. ery day. I know this because when haste to welcome summer’s late ar- relax enough to converse with the While much of the current health I went in for my follow-up visit, my rival on August 1, I put my hand medical staff. It wasn’t long before care “debate” revolves around em- doctor couldn’t immediately remem- where everyone knows it shouldn’t the discussion turned to the ongoing ployer-sponsored health care plans, ber if I was the chainsaw, car door, lawn mower, leaf mulcher, or hedge go when operating a certain gas- health care “debate.” The attending that is not my situation. I am self- trimmer accident, all of which he had powered landscaping tool, which physician was the most emphatic. employed and solely responsible for seen in the last week. For me and I now call The Amputator. Within “Everyone should be able to get free my monthly premiums. Again, I give other healthy people, health care is moments, both my neighbors were health care,” he said. While I knew Catamount Health Care high marks about more than life-threatening ill- rushing me to the emergency room I was not getting a free ride, I took because their premiums are deter- nesses or chronic conditions. It’s a at Copley Hospital in Morrisville. comfort knowing Catamount would mined by one’s income. My current part of every day life, which is why Often times, when seeking cover 80 percent of my emergency payment of $110 per month is 42 insurance needs to be affordable for emergency care, thoughts are domi- room visit, after my $250 deductible. percent less than what I previously everyone, no matter what system we nated by fears of how much it will My previous policy, with a $5,000 de- paid, even with a $5,000 deductible. have. cost, rather than concerns for the ductible, would have paid none of it. While I fully appreciate Vermont’s None of us knows what lies actual injury and potential con- Then my visit got more compli- health insurance program, the tran- ahead, yet we all want to be capable sequences. Fortunately, however, cated. Since there was not an ortho- sition was not without risk. I had to of facing emergencies that are as un- for the fi rst time in my life, I have pedic surgeon on call that weekend, be uninsured for one year in order to expected and dramatic as our “sum- a good health insurance policy. my doctor referred me to a surgeon qualify. Can you imagine where I’d mer” weather. Vermont’s Catamount Health Care at Central Vermont Hospital. So, be if my injury had occurred a year —Kate Carter (BC/BS) has been my provider since with fi nger bandaged, off I went for ago? I’ll tell you where—Craig’s list, OUT & ABOUT BY JOHN MORTON UNSTRUCTURED PLAY ometimes, usually in the spur the 1950s, the oldest of three kids, building supplies, but I do remem- fantasy was further enhanced when of the moment, if Mark Breen growing up in rural New Hampshire. ber his surprise at the expansiveness the town road crew cut several large Sis forecasting a “scorcher,” my Our dad worked hard nurturing a of one of my tree forts. pines and burned the brush. When wife and I make the three-hour pil- business he had started after return- Playing army usually involved the workers left at the end of the day, grimage to a beach on the coast of ing from military service in WWII. digging foxholes in tree lines then we coaxed the glowing embers back Maine. Recently, as we walked on the Our mom was a busy homemaker in waiting patiently, sometimes for into a campfi re which we secretly kept alive for almost a week. fi ne sand, the surf surging over our the era before pre-school, play dates, hours, for the resident Holsteins I recognize that now it’s a differ- ankles, I noticed families enjoying ballet lessons, and soccer camps. (which represented enemy tanks) ent world in many ways, and that the idyllic, summer day. Many of the Aside from Howdy Doody and to graze their way into our ambush. Usually when we opened fi re, with much of the unstructured play I took adults were sitting in beach chairs some Saturday morning cartoons, sticks for machine guns, the cows for granted as a kid would not be con- reading or chatting, while the kids there wasn’t anything interesting would bolt to the far side of the pas- sidered safe today.