Editorials

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Mark Larson, commissioner of the Department of Vermont Health Access, the home of Vermont Health Connect. It was also submitted to Newsweek magazine. I feel obligated to respond to the story “Doubling Down on Obamacare” by Lynnley Browning that was published on the website Newsweek. Despite providing Newsweek with […]

Addressing health care challenges on the national level but this is relevent to some of the same issues we will face when implementing a single payer system in Vermont. Editorial from the Washington Post By Charles Lane The left-right battle that erupted over last week’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report showing that Obamacare reduces work […]

By Greg Dennis  What’s the true nature of our expensive healthcare system? Is it an overregulated mess that’s crying out for free-market forces to improve quality and lower costs, by expanding competition among providers? Or is it an under-regulated mess that’s crying out for a single-payer system to improve quality and lower costs, by eliminating […]

Rutland Herald Op EdA bill introduced in the Vermont Senate promises to provoke discussion about how Vermonters will pay for the new single-payer health care system that the Shumlin administration is busily piecing together. The bill may provide an oversimplified revenue scheme, but discussion of the question is welcome. Sen. Peter Galbraith, author of the […]

NOTE:  We usually only post editorials and opinion pieces that deal directly with Vermont. Michael Moore’s piece is on the national situation, but it takes special note of Vermont as leading the way on health care, with its plans to enact a single payer plan.  So, we are including the editorial here: The New York Times […]

The Nation Vermont’s Single-payer Experiment As everyone else wrangled over even the mildest Affordable Care Act reforms, Governor Peter Shumlin and his legislative allies were busy preparing a single-payer system for Vermont. Yes, they worked with federal officials to set up the Vermont Health Connect exchange as part of the ACA. But they also allocated […]

Burlington Free Press When did the people’s need for universal health care get hijacked by the money-making interests of big insurers, big business and big hospitals? Was it when federal health reformers bowed to the health industry by setting up a marketplace that is about to channel significant public subsidies to private insurance companies? Or […]

PNHP Blog [Note: This column from the blog of Physicians for a National Health Program is about national single payer and not merely Vermont.  But, it illustrates quite succinctly the administrative simplicity of the single payer concept, so we are also posting it here]. By Harvey Fernbach, M.D. I just enrolled in Medicare. It took […]

VTDigger Editor’s note: This commentary is by Lee Russ, a member of the Vermont Workers’ Center. He is a semi-retired legal writer and editor, who was the lead author of “Couch on Insurance.” Canada, O Canada, how some Americans love to disparage you — especially your health care system. In an editorial titled “Decoding the […]

The Guardian By Bernie Sanders Obamacare’s reforms are a welcome but small step. To give all Americans healthcare as a right, we need a fair, efficient solution. I start my approach to healthcare from two very basic premises. First, healthcare must be recognized as a right, not a privilege. Every man, woman and child in […]