Editorials

 Vermont Digger Editor’s note: This commentary is by Dawn Griffis, a retired nurse practitioner who trained in England under the National Health Service and who has nursed all over the United States since 1965. She has been involved with the Vermont Workers’ Center and Physicians for a National Health Program. She is the author of […]

    New York Times By MOLLY WORTHENAPRIL 5, 2014       Photo   CreditAlexander Glandien Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main storyShare This Page Continue reading the main story WHEN most liberals hear the words “third party,” they have nasty flashbacks to Ralph Nader’s spoiler campaign in 2000. The history buffs […]

The Vermont StandardBy: Kurt Staudter For most of my adult life I’ve been a supporter of systemic change to the way we deal with the care and well-being of our citizens. Our health care system is broken. Wait. That’s just a little too kind a way of saying it: Perhaps a better way to say […]

Bennington Banner By: Ashley Illinski, Arlington This is a commentary on the Affordable Care Act but it provides valuable comparisons focusing on why we must make health care accessible and affordable to everyone if we want to reduce costs. The current administration seems to think that the only issue with the health exchange is the […]

Times Argus Online An article in Sunday’s edition of The Times Argus went behind the scenes of the controversial Vermont Health Connect. Vermont Press Bureau Chief Neal Goswami took readers into the chronology of the exchange and showed, in no uncertain terms, how muddled and troubled the process had become between the Department of Vermont […]

The Press Herald Maine Voices This article is not about our work in Vermont but always good to hear what is going on in other states. By Alice Knapp RICHMOND — Let’s be clear. We haven’t come close to solving the problems with our health care system. The Maine Republicans’ bill, PL 90, didn’t come […]

Manchester Journal By: Cynthia Browning, Representative for the towns of Manchester, Arlington, Sunderland and Sandgate in the State Legislature. As Vermont continues along the path of reforming health care and health insurance we must keep our eyes on the prize: quality health care that is affordable while controlling costs. There are many unanswered questions about […]

Brattleboro Reformer By Richard Davis The Vermont National Education Association (NEA) and the single payer organization Vermont Leads (of which I am a board member) have released the results of a survey conducted with 502 Vermonters between Jan. 14-16, by Bostonbased Kiley & Company, opinion research consultants. That survey indicates that there is broad public […]

Rutland Herald By Martha Allen Martha Allen is a K-12 school librarian and president of Vermont-NEA. She lives in Canaan. Many people may have been surprised and a little curious about the announcement last week that Vermont-NEA was backing the move toward universal, publicly funded health care. After all, the thinking goes, members of the […]

Vermont Digger Editor’s note: Marvin Malek, MD MPH, is an internist practicing in Berlin. Over the last month, opponents to Vermont’s health reform have come up with a novel rationale for delaying or aborting the reform: that health inflation has been tamed even before the national or Vermont’s state-based reforms were rolled out. (VTDigger Feb. […]