Health Care for Me, But Not for Thee

Vermont Political Observer Now that Crossover Day has come and gone, it’s now official: State lawmakers will consider giving themselves health care coverage but won’t consider the same for all the rest of us. On the Senate side, S.39 has emerged from the Government Operations Committee. It would significantly increase lawmakers’ pay from its current […]

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John Greenberg: OneCare ignores the problem: Health costs vastly exceed benefits

VTDigger This commentary is by John Greenberg, a resident of Marlboro. I’m struggling to understand Anya Rader-Wallack’s commentary about OneCare. Ms. Wallack states that the purpose of OneCare is to replace fee-for-service medicine, which, she argues “is, in large part, responsible for the unsustainable growth in health care costs in the U.S.” But is it? […]

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One-Care is Exacerbating the Problem

Brattleboro Reformer Ms. (Dr.?) Wallack states that the purpose of OneCare is to replace fee-for-service medicine, which she argues “is, in large part, responsible for the unsustainable growth in health care costs in the U.S.” But is it? If so, then why is Canadian medicine so much cheaper than ours, when it too relies on […]

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What Is This “Health Care System” Of Which You Speak?

The Vermont Political Observer By John Walters If there was an organizational chart outlining America’s process for supplying and paying for health care, it would look something like this. It’s not a “system” as much as a mare’s nest that grows more and more complicated — and less efficient and increasingly unjust — over time. […]

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Ellen Oxfeld: We need a universal public system to solve our health care crisis

VTDigger This commentary is by Ellen Oxfeld of Middlebury, a board member of Vermont Health Care for All. In the past few weeks, the mess of Vermont’s health care situation has been abundantly documented by numerous commentators to this publication. Even members of the Green Mountain Care Board recently questioned executives from OneCare, asking them […]

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