Editorials

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, […]

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, […]

VTDigger Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Dr. Bill Wood, an ear, nose and throat specialist who practices in Brattleboro. 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 […]

Rutland Herald Businesses face an all too familiar annual decision: Living in a competitive environment with labor costs rising, how much health insurance do I provide my employees? How much do I pay, how much do they pay? What is a reasonable plan, what level of deductible, what level of copay? I know that health […]

VTDigger Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Peter Sterling, the director of the Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security [1], a nonprofit organization that works to educate Vermonters about and assist them in enrolling in Vermont’s public health care programs: Catamount Health, VHAP and Dr Dynasaur. Hurricane Irene made headlines when it tore apart communities […]

VPR Hamilton E. Davis On a quiet morning in late February, Jonathan Martin, a political analyst for Politico, a leading national Web site, published a speculative piece about Hillary Clinton’s effect on the 2016 presidential election. Given her immense popularity, the possibility that Clinton might run is blocking the next generation of Democratic leaders from […]