Editorials

VTDigger This commentary is by Marvin Malek, M.D., who also holds a master’s degree in public health and is an internist/hospitalist at Springfield (Vt.) Hospital. This week brought two milestones in the Covid pandemic: The Covid death toll in the U.S. reached 688,000. 675,000 is the best estimate of the number of U.S. deaths that […]

VTDigger By Michelle O’Donnell Last July, I packed into a room in Montpelier City Hall for the Green Mountain Care Board hearing, where they would decide whether to approve a requested rate increase from Blue Cross Blue Shield and MVP. After listening to hours of moving testimony of people directly affected by high health insurance […]

Medscape This piece is about single-payer health care in the United States. It includes extensive information about Vermont and highlights recent efforts to create a publicly funded universal health care system. Don Berwick, MD, helped launch the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – considered at the time to be the only health reform this country would need […]

“Our history of calling people back is so god awful I hesitate to do it. I wonder why the hell – excuse my language Mr. Chairman – I wonder why we tell people we’re going to call them back at all,” Lawrence Miller, during testimony to lawmakers on problems with VT Health Connect. Over the […]