Editorials

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. You have got to ask yourself, do you want insurance or do you want health care? If you answered health care, well, beware the Fear Monger. According to the […]

Rutland Herald The original recommendation to require purchase of health insurance in the exchange starting in 2014 has now been downsized to include individuals and only small business with 50 or fewer employees. “Bronze” levels of coverage — policies that cover only 60 percent of medical costs — will now also be allowed to be […]

Rutland Herald There has been a lot of discussion about the new health care 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 […]

My Turn: Burlington Free Press Opponents of Vermont’s new single payer health law are fear- mongering about the supposed conse¬quences of lack of “robust choice” in the health insurance marketplace. What they ignore is that health care doesn’t work like other “products.” It is better seen as a public good, like electricity. A publicly financed, […]

Burlington Free Press By Beach Conger Hardly a week goes by these days without someone asking me what I think about ‘all this health care stuff’ as they call it, lumping together into one wad, ObamaCare, Green Mountain Health Care, and their own particular plot of the health insurance swamp. They don’t really want to […]

VtDigger Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Susan Leigh Deppe, a psychiatrist with a practice in Colchester. Opponents of Vermont’s new single-payer health law are fear-mongering about the supposed consequences of lack of “robust choice” in the health insurance marketplace. What they ignore is that health care doesn’t work like other “products.” It is better […]

Rutland Herald By Ellen Oxfeld What are the potential savings from a single-payer health care system in Vermont? A recent report from the Joint Fiscal Office and the Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration has led some single-payer opponents to claim that significant cost containment can occur without single-payer. This is a […]

Burlington Free Press By Bram Kleppner One: Quality. Our health care system doesn’t produce very good health. Of the world’s 33 developed countries, the United States ranks near the bottom in health indicators like infant death, death that could have been prevented by proper health care, and life expectancy. From North America to Europe to […]

Huffington Post By Governor Peter Shumlin, Governor of Vermont Watching the events of the past several weeks in Washington has been sobering. Decades of failed fiscal policy have finally come home to roost and Congress is tied in knots trying to find a compromise solution and avoid American default. Americans rightly are scared that our […]

Dollars & Sense magazine July/August -Gerald Friedman, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts. America’s broken health-care system suffers from what appear to be two separate problems. From the right, a chorus warns of the dangers of rising costs; we on the left focus on the growing number of people going without health care […]