Letters

  Caledonian Record Opponents of Medicare for All like to scare people by warning about a “government takeover” of health care. Let’s get serious: American health care was taken over long ago by insurance companies and other commercial interests. We need to take health care back from them. The commercial takeover has reduced American health […]

  Times Argus We Americans have experienced two periods of mass unemployment over the last dozen years. We have the most expensive health care system in the world – No. 1! Based on results per population size (actual humans here, keep in mind), we rank 37th – 37! We have seen health care go up […]

  Bennington Banner From Ayn Rand to Milton Friedman to Ronald Reagan, America’s conservative heroes have preached “public is bad, private is good.” Just ask a former 2-term president and a former Nobel Prize winner: – “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Ronald […]

Valley News On Dec. 18, the Green Mountain Care Board, Vermont’s health care regulating body, approved a $1.43 billion OneCare budget, a 59% increase from the previous year. The latest budget increase reflects continued actions by public officials to turn the core functions of Vermont’s health care needs over to an expensive, experimental and for-profit […]

Times Argus Dec. 12 is Universal Health Coverage Day, a day for celebration in most of the developed world. In this country, the richest in the world, and in this state, not so much. At the federal level, government support for health care was first suggested a century ago and progress has been slow. Most […]

Brattleboro Reformer Editor of the Reformer, The folks who brought us One Care Vermont were well meaning. Unfortunately, their work product has failed to meet its lofty goals. It is neither cutting costs nor is it providing better health care outcomes. Its latest projection is for a budget of $1.36 billion. This budget puts survival […]

Bennington Banner Why are American health care costs so high? Experts offer up an extensive menu of explanations, which other experts dispute. The answer is a lot simpler than they make it. To paraphrase James Carville, “It’s the administrative costs, stupid.” In 2011, the Commonwealth Fund reported that U.S. medical offices spent 20.6 hours a […]

Brattleboro Reformer Editor of the Reformer, A few weeks ago the Census Bureau released its annual report on health insurance coverage in the U.S., showing that the number of uninsured has grown. Nearly 2 million people lost coverage between 2017 and 2018, a sign that our broken system is getting even worse. Last year there […]

Addison Independent I am writing to you regarding the Green Mountain Care Board decision to again approve a double digit increase for Blue Cross (12.4 percent) and MVP (10.1 percent) on Thursday. These increases in insurance rates make it impossible for families living on a fixed income to afford insurance. So it’s a choice between […]

Bennington Banner Health industry lobbyists keep claiming to wonder why we need Medicare for All when, they insist, we have such a wonderful system already. Well, here are 12 reasons: — 9/11 first responders wouldn’t have to beg for health care. — People in horrible accidents wouldn’t have to resort to online begging. — People […]