Editorials

Addison Independent By Marvin MalekThis week’s writer is Dr. Marvin Malek, MD MPH, who is an internist working at Central Vermont Hospital in Berlin. The financial problem that occurred recently at Porter Hospital isn’t the first and won’t be the last cost overrun we’ll see in Vermont related to the adoption of electronic health records […]

Burlington Free Press As we see more and more of our dollars going toward the rising costs of health care, it is critically important that we continue our efforts to control costs while providing better care for all Vermonters. The governor remains committed to this goal and we are working tirelessly toward achieving this much-needed […]

Brattleboro Reformer In 2014 the world of health insurance will look very different for about 250,000 Vermonters. According to state officials, up to 40 percent of the state’s population could be buying their insurance through something called Vermont Health Connect, the state’s version of the federally mandated exchange. More enlightened health policy advocates think we […]

Rutland Herald As more details come to light about the financing of Vermont’s new health care exchange, the difficulty of constructing a hybrid system based on health insurance becomes increasingly evident. Vermont is on a pathway toward a single-payer system that would be independent of insurance. Instead, it would provide something like Medicare for all, […]

VTDigger Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Peter Youngbaer, who is the director of the People’s Health & Wellness Clinic in Barre, which provides primary health care and wellness education to uninsured and underinsured residents of central Vermont who cannot otherwise afford these services. On Jan. 24, Gov. Peter Shumlin presented his budget for the […]

Rutland Herald The University of Massachusetts Medical School released the fourth Vermont single-payer health care study done since 2001. Each has confirmed that both health care security and substantial savings are possible. UMass makes perhaps the most compelling case for single-payer of them all. Without reform, Vermonters in 2017 will be paying more than $2 […]

Brattleboro Reformer Last Thursday a report was released by two consulting firms hired to run the numbers for Vermont’s universal health care system, Green Mountain Care (GMC), to begin in 2017. It marks the beginning of a new era in Vermont health care reform. The 156 page document, titled Health Care Reform Financing Plan, submitted […]

Rutland Herald A new report on the projected savings of single-payer health care in Vermont represents a green light for planners putting together the new system. The report from the University of Massachusetts Medical School confirms the working assumptions contained in previous studies: that a new health care system could save many millions of dollars, […]

Times Argus  [Note: This article was published under the title:  The Benefits of Obamacare to Vermont] Kudos to the grant writers at Vermont’s Dept. of Health Access for obtaining $156 million from the federal government to assist with the implementation of the health exchange, the new insurance marketplace scheduled to go online in October, 2013 […]

Burlington Free Press As director since 2000 of a program whose mission is to help the uninsured and underinsured stay healthy, I was concerned with Gov. Shumlin’s recent comments saying that “state health care subsidies for working class Vermonters might be more generous than they need to be, and that some residents here could soon […]