Editorials

 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 […]

 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 […]