Jim Leddy: Who’s counting?

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jim Leddy, of South Burlington, who is a former Democratic Chittenden County state senator, former chair of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee; former president of AARP Vermont; former chair of the national AARP’s Health and Long Term Care Committee; and a 10-year recipient of Medicare benefits.In a recent VTDigger story by Elizabeth Hewitt, she writes that Rep. Peter Welch, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., have called upo