John Marciano and Leslie Dwyer: While hedge funds and rich corporate interests are buying up hospitals across the country and cutting services and staff to increase their profits, the well-being of hospital staff and patients is undermined.

Brenda B. Gould: A recent study reveals that in Gaza the war death toll of health care workers is three to four times as high as that of the general population.

Michael O’Looney: There seem to be too many pieces to assemble. Somehow the Democrats lost the vote of the working class, the truck drivers, farmers, the factory workers, the little man and woman trying to make ends meet, even our young people.

Dan Van Dyke: Think a casino in Medford would be a good thing? If so, you must want more pawn shops, illegal camping on the greenway, drug use and crime.