Editorials

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 […]

Vermont Digger By: Peter Sterling, Montpelier Editor’s note: This commentary is by Peter Sterling, the director of Vermont Leads, a nonprofit organization working to create a universal, publicly fund health care system in Vermont. The visionaries who founded our country did not give women the right to vote. Nor did they outlaw one of the […]

 Addison Independent By Angelo Lynn In an interview with Lawrence Miller last week that ran in Thursday’s Addison Independent that explored Miller’s new position as the governor’s senior advisor and Chief of Health Care Reform, there were two take-home comments that can’t be emphasized enough: that the state won’t push forward with a single payer […]