Editorials

The Valley Reporter Written by Russ Bennett NorthLand Design & Construction Inc. has been providing health insurance and a living wage since we started in 1978. NorthLand, like all businesses, has to manage its production costs. We have to meet our clients’ budgets and deadlines. To survive, all businesses have to be able to control […]

VTDigger Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Peter Sterling, the executive director of the Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security [1]. Just last week Jeff Wennberg and his organization Vermonters for Health Care Freedom finally offered the public a look at what opponents of universal health care believe can solve Vermont’s health care crisis (WCAX’s […]

VTDigger Vermont Democratic Party Press Release Jesse Bragg Recently, the conservative anti-health care reform group, “Vermonters for Health Care Freedom”, underwent a change of leadership when its Director, Republican operative Darcy Johnson, came clean and decided to dedicate her efforts overtly to Republican Randy Brock’s bid to become Governor of Vermont. Taking Ms. Johnson’s place […]

VTDigger Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Kelly Cummings of Fletcher, who is a member of the Vermont Workers Center’s Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign. OK, folks, here we go! Health care has made it to the big show. The United States Supreme Court. The fear mongering is really going to ratchet up, so […]

VTDigger Editor’s note: Marvin Malek, MD, is a physician who practices internal medicine at Central Vermont Hospital. On Feb. 12, 2002, Fred Hernden, a retired Vietnam veteran, developed weakness and abdominal pain. He had recently moved to New Mexico from Woodstock, Vt. It was not by accident that the small home he bought was located […]

Burlington Free Press There has been a lot of discussion about the health insurance exchange — about “bronze,” “silver” and “platinum” plans. Vermont is required by federal law to implement the exchange in 2014. How can Vermont’s legislature best configure the exchange? Many people are wondering what this all means for them. Let’s remember that […]

Brattleboro Reformer By Richard Davis GUILFORD- In the coming months Vermonters will be subjected to lies and emotional tirades from those who oppose the direction in which health care reform is headed. Unfortunately, lies have become the accepted standard vehicle for political rhetoric in this country. The principle is that if you tell a lie […]

Rutland HeraldMisinformation about Vermont’s health care reform effort is proliferating. At the recent forum hosted by the Republican legislators for Caledonia County, Darcie Johnston, of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, made three major points about Vermont’s health care reform that are just plain wrong. She claimed that it will: 1) severely limit freedom of choice, […]

Burlington Free Press It is in the interest of every Vermonter to support the Vermont Legislature’s efforts to plan and implement a single-payer health care system. It is important to realize that as a single state among 50, we must comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted by Congress last year. Therefore, the most […]

Caledonian Record Misinformation about Vermont’s health care reform effort is proliferating. At the recent forum hosted by the Republican legislators for Caledonia County, Darcie Johnston, of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, made three major points about Vermont’s health care reform that are just plain wrong. She claimed that it will 1) severely limit freedom of […]