Letters

Times Argus The recent urging by UVM Medical Center’s overwhelmed ER that patients seek treatment elsewhere largely reflects the shortage of primary care. You cannot resolve routine problems and complaints with your primary-care clinician if you do not have one … and there are massive waiting lists to get one. Primary care has become an […]

VTDigger This commentary is by Walter Carpenter of Montpelier, who works in Vermont’s tourism business and is a writer and a health care activist. In 2006, at the point of death, he says, he had to shop around and negotiate the price of his life because he did not have insurance. I was excessively appalled […]

VTDigger The recent urging by UVM Medical Center’s overwhelmed ER that patients seek treatment elsewhere largely reflects the shortage of primary care. You cannot resolve routine problems and complaints with your primary care clinician if you do not have one — and there are massive waiting lists to get one. Primary care has become an […]

Rutland Herald Apparently, real health care would be too un-American. The recent news that UVM Medical Center ER was so overwhelmed, patients were being urged to seek treatment elsewhere marks quite an accomplishment for Vermont. By creating a system of health care that now features incredibly long waits, and emergency rooms so overwhelmed they are […]

Times Argus Pointing out in his commentary “Health care costs” (Oct. 1) that Vermonters spent “an astonishing $7.95 billion on health care in 2020 — over $12,600 per person living in our state,” Mr. Andrew Garland proposes Vermonters should shop around to different hospitals and medical practices as a strategy to help lower these costs. […]

VTDigger Conservatives often use word games to trick voters into voting against their own interests. Take Medicare for All. Opponents point to the amount of money required to run the program and scream that it “costs” too much. They diligently avoid comparing that “cost” to the cost of the insane system we have now. Call […]

VTDigger In reading the recent opinion written by the VP of Client Relations at BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont suggesting price-shopping by patients, comments I have seen are “absurd” and “breathtaking.” Health care costs, the stranglehold of insurance companies and Big Pharma add to a broken system of health care in Vermont and throughout the country. […]

VTDigger To the Editor, The gubernatorial debate which I watched Wednesday night was very powerful and both candidates are to be applauded for a job well done! However, one question about health care and the state employees not wanting a Medicare Advantage plan for retirees showed the governor’s acceptance of the total privatization of Medicare […]

Brattleboro Reformer To the editor: The ongoing crisis in hospital budgets has the University of Vermont Health Network feuding with the Green Mountain Care Board. Both claim to be concerned with how their budget decisions will affect everyday Vermonters. The fact is that everyday Vermonters are once again getting the shaft regardless of which side […]

Caledonian Record To the Editor: The ongoing crisis in hospital budgets has the University of Vermont Health Network feuding with the Green Mountain Care Board. Both claim to be concerned with how their budget decisions will affect everyday Vermonters. The fact is that everyday Vermonters are once again getting the shaft regardless of which side […]