Editorials

Brattleboro Reformer By Ellen Oxfeld Let’s hope Vermont is looking in the rear-view mirror at the coronavirus pandemic. Have we learned anything about health care? Most people agree that Vermont did better than most states at controlling the spread of the virus, and now, with 80% of the eligible population having received at least one […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]