Editorials

Rutland Herald Now the really hard work begins. The health care exchange legislation just passed was a small precursor to the next item of business in health care reform, scheduled for the 2013 session: financing of Green Mountain Care single-payer health care. Chief among the challenges will be how to pay for a universal coverage […]

Times Argus By Dr. Marvin Malek I was surprised to read that Jeff Wennberg, executive director of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, is encouraging readers to follow the money (April 29). The money Wennberg is referring to is federal money potentially available to Vermont to support the reform effort. He points out that the legislature’s […]

VTDigger Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Robin Lunge, Vermont’s director of Health Care Reform. The Vermont House and Senate should be applauded for putting Vermonters first by passing H.559, the health insurance reform and exchange bill. Legislators voting in favor of the bill recognized the needs of Vermonters by ensuring that under the insurance […]

Rutland Herald It’s an election year in an era of divisive politics, so the campaign-style attacks on Vermont’s health care reform efforts probably shouldn’t be surprising. And from what we’ve seen on the national political stage, we know that campaign ads don’t have to make sense. Still, why would anyone want to convince Vermonters there […]

Burlington Free Press In the April 12 “My Turn” in the Burlington Free Press, Bruce Lisman writes “Is health care reform important? Of course it is. Yet politicians in Montpelier are ‘rocketing’ us to a new system without showing us the cost.” Really? Mr. Lisman is apparently ignorant of, or is ignoring, four official studies […]

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 […]