By Deb Richter
Jan. 31, 2011
The usual practice in committees and hearings – the standard back and forth of legislation – is to pick away at the details (”the devil is in the details”). Not this time. This time the devil will reside in our failure to create and establish a true health care system.
By Ellen Oxfeld
Jan. 25, 2011
The health care system reform design of the Hsiao, Kappel, Gruber team is masterful. Both Option 1 and Option 3 are single payer plans that will create an historic first for the United States. They will establish a sustainable system of health care that includes everyone and that will prevent both individuals and the system as a whole from plunging into financial ruin due to uncontrolled health care expenses.
By Deb Richter
Co-chair of Vermont Health Care for All
Jan. 20, 2011
William Hsiao’s report Wednesday, Jan. 19, was an historic moment. It’s historic because it proposes, as it was asked to do, to create a health care system.