Editorials

Note: This op-ed is not focused on Vermont, but we are posting it here because it is relevant to Vermont.  It focuses on the way business people in Canada find a single payer system much more business friendly than the private insurance system in the United States. The Washington PostBy Matt Miller When you’re being […]

The Hill By Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Americans spend about twice as much per capita on healthcare as almost any other developed nation, but our outcomes are not as good as others that spend much less. We can do better. We must do better. Today, some 50 million Americans lack health insurance. Many others delay […]

Valley News Which is less surprising — that Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin identified the payroll tax as a major source of revenue for the single-payer health care system his administration is designing or that the Vermont Chamber of Commerce immediately expressed its disapproval? Shumlin’s acknowledgment, which came recently in interviews with the news media, qualifies […]

VPR By Hamilton E. Davis When someone writes the history of health care reform in Vermont, he or she would do well to look closely at the Green Mountain Care Board hearing last week on Fletcher Allen Health Care’s proposed fiscal 2014 budget. There are 14 hospitals in Vermont and they and the doctors that […]

Huffington Post By Wendell Potter [Note: Although this opinion piece appeared in a national publication, it is focused on Vermont and that is why we are posting it on our website. Click here for related Vermont news story]. When you’re shopping for health insurance, wouldn’t it be great if you could find out every insurer’s […]

VTDigger Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Ann Raynolds of Pomfret, a psychologist licensed in Vermont and New Hampshire. Open letter to Vermont senior citizens on Medicare: Watch your mail closely. There’s a big new health care bureaucracy about to scoop you into it, not even asking for your approval to join. It’s called an […]

Burlington Free Press The newest trend for health care reform is “accountable care.” In 2006 Elliott Fischer of Dartmouth proposed this new kid on the block to reform our health care woes and created the name, Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Vermont’s Fletcher Allen Healthcare and New Hampshire’s Dartmouth Mary Hitchcock have formed OneCare Vermont touted […]

VTDigger Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Ron Krupp, a gardener and author whose most recent book is “Lifting the Yoke — Local Solutions to America’s Farm and Food Crisis.” “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us” is the title of a special Time magazine article on March 4 by Stephen Brill. Brill asks: […]

VTDigger Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Dr. Anna Carey, a family physician in Burlington. The newest trend for health care reform is “accountable care.” In 2006 Elliott Fischer of Dartmouth proposed this new kid on the block to reform our health care woes and created the name, accountable care organization (ACO). Vermont’s Fletcher Allen […]

Brattleboro Reformer Almost every week, here in Vermont, patients come to see me who are self-pay — a euphemism for having no health insurance. Sometimes they have delayed seeking care, because of their lack of insurance, until a relatively small problem has progressed to becoming a dangerous one. Numerous other patients I see aren’t self-pay, […]