Letters

Addison Independent Sarah’s headaches had been getting worse and more frequent. But as a single mom with two teenagers, she just didn’t have the extra cash to see a doctor. Her deductible was $4,000, almost 10% of her annual income.When her daughter finally drove her to the emergency room, the cancer from her brain tumor had […]

Addison Independent I’m writing as a retired educator who remains concerned about the future of preK-12 education in Vermont. Our governor made a commitment to lower education costs, determined not to kick the can down the road any further. However, the can he’s neglected to stop kicking is the cost of health care, which is the […]

Seven Days It is excruciating to read article after article about cherished, essential Vermont institutions — public schools, birth centers, Seven Days, you name it — closing, shrinking or forcing costs onto their employees due to the skyrocketing price of health insurance [From the Publisher: “What I Should Have Said,” December 3]. And it’s about […]

Time Argus As President Trump has now decided he will solve the health care problem by giving every citizen an amount of money to spend on health care as they choose, perhaps we need to remind him there already are bills in Congress to get rid of the insurance companies by forming a single payer, universal […]

Addison Independent  By Jack Mayer With regard to the ongoing crisis in education and conflict regarding consolidation, I’d like to offer an alternative solution to the funding challenges. Approximately 15% of school budgets are for health benefits and insurance. What if we had a single payer health care system that would be financed by progressive […]

The Valley Reporter To The Editor: I thank the editor of The Valley Reporter for the editorial in the November 6 edition, “It’s the health care, stupid.” This little modification of that catchphrase from James Carville, former President Bill Clinton’s political strategist in Clinton’s 1992 campaign, says it all. At long last, someone else other than activists […]

Caledonian Record To the Editor: As we all know, our healthcare system relies on multiple “payers” and the commercial insurance payers each issue many, many different policies, each with different terms. This system depends on a dizzying array of codes and paperwork to function. The billing efforts alone eat up enormous amounts of time and […]

Seven Days Thanks for “Ways and Means: Legislation, STAT!” [September 3]. This focused on how health care legislation not being the main show in the building last year allowed the House and Senate health care committees to quietly get through several bills to hopefully lower our crazy-high health care costs — things like reference-based pricing, […]

St. Albans Messenger I thank Mr. Emerson Lynn for his commentary “Why Green Mountain Care Board [GMCB] had to take on UVMMC (Messenger, September 19, 2025).” It has long been past time for that and I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Lynn’s summary of what actions the GMCB took with UVMMC and why it had to […]

The Caledonian Record The report that St. Johnsbury’s Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital is cutting staff and programs  continues a dangerous trend across the state. Services that the community needs, like obstetrics and in-patient psychiatric care, get closed because we don’t finance hospitals based on community needs and with public financing. So they end programs that […]