Editorials

Rutland Herald An op-ed piece appearing in these pages last Sunday has struck a nerve among advocates for the single-payer health care plan that is due to be unveiled this January. Paul Ralston, a Democratic House member from Middlebury who is not running for re-election, warned that the poor performance of Vermont Health Connect, the […]

Brattleboro Reformer As we head into the final lap of the biennial Vermont campaign season there is one topic that is begging for more debate. How should we finance a new single payer health care system? Political forums and debates have raised the simplistic question of whether or not a candidate is in favor of […]

VTDigger Editor’s note: This commentary is by Peter Sterling, the director of Vermont Leads, a nonprofit organization working to educate the public about the advantages of implementing a publicly funded, universal access health care system in Vermont. Rep. Paul Ralston’s commentary of Aug. 19, “Single-payer is the Only Campaign Issue,” raises some understandable concerns about […]

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 […]