Editorials

Rutland Herald In the middle of fretting about my upcoming cataract surgery — I am too young for this, I hope the surgeon knows what he’s doing, I hope that when it’s over I’ll see that all this worrying was unnecessary — I did something that seemed straightforward and easy: went to the drug store […]

Essex Reporter By Jack Hoffman Employer-sponsored health insurance is a misnomer. Money that an employer putatively “contributes” to a company health insurance plan is simply employee compensation in another form. The point is driven home in a recent column in the American Prospect by Paul Waldman about the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Hobby […]

Rutland Herald In his recent column on health care (June 29), John McClaughry criticizes Vermont’s road map to universal health care as laid out in Act 48. This road map hopes to create a publicly financed health care system, in which health care is a guaranteed public good for all Vermonters The target date for […]

Bennington Banner I am compelled to write a rebuttal to Mr. Lawrence Harrington’s June 20 Letter to the Editor. I do feel sorry for him — it must be difficult to live in Vermont surrounded by so many screaming liberals. He must feel a lot like General Custer at the Little Bighorn. To summarize his […]

Burlington Free Press By Lawrence Miller, Chief of Health Care Reform What’s the biggest state tax Vermonters already pay? It’s not property, income or sales tax. It’s a 15 percent health care tax that Vermont businesses and individuals are paying today. And many don’t even know they are paying it. In 2012, Vermonters spent $1.886 […]

 Burlington FreepressEllen Oxfeld, Middlebury. Ellen is a member of the Vermont Health Care for All Board of Directors. In March, Senate President John Campbell backed away from an unwavering commitment to the historic task set out in Act 48 — creating a publicly funded guaranteed health care system for all Vermonters.Campbell’s stated reason for this […]

 Burlington FreepressEllen Oxfeld, Middlebury. Ellen is a member of the Vermont Health Care for All Board of Directors. In March, Senate President John Campbell backed away from an unwavering commitment to the historic task set out in Act 48 — creating a publicly funded guaranteed health care system for all Vermonters.Campbell’s stated reason for this […]

 Valley News EditorialIf you seek confirmation that health care is big business, look no further than Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s most recent federal tax filing.As staff writer Rick Jurgens reported last month, D-H made severance payments totaling more than $3 million in 2012 to three top executives displaced in a management shuffle in November of the previous year. […]

Rutland Herald By: Donna Sutton Fay, Policy Director for the Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security Education Fund There is an old saying that you can look at a glass as half empty or half full. This can be said of Vermont Health Connect (VHC). The success of VHC has not been as bad as opponents […]

Tucson Sentinel By:Wendell Potter, Center for Public Integrity When I returned home after a two-week speaking tour of Canada and began catching up on news about Obamacare, I was angry and upset, and not just at politicians and special interests that benefit from deception-based PR tactics. I was — and still am — mostly angry […]