Letters

Bennington Banner Our healthcare “system” operates via a Byzantine system of price hikes, price discounts, different pricing for different customers, and an immense web of middlemen who operate it all. The complexity and the middlemen will always keep prices higher than they otherwise would be. Always. Our irrational system causes immense personal harm and misery, […]

Seven Days Thanks to Seven Days for [“Code Red,” May 7], on how the state’s health care leaders are scrambling to prevent another colossal insurance hike in rates or the implosion of the state’s health care system. It is excessively telling and sad that Rep. Alyssa Black (D-Essex), chair of the House Health Care Committee, […]

VTDigger Dear Editor, The recent VTDigger article about the financial struggles of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont was déjà vu. It reminded me of another time in the past when we were at this point where Blue Cross Blue Shield was petitioning the Green Mountain Care Board for huge rate increases to prevent their […]

Morrisville News and Citizen To the Editor: I thank Rep. Dave Yacovone for his recent commentary (“There is no quick fix to solve health care problems,” Feb. 27, 2025). Rep. Yacovone details how our ailing healthcare system is failing so badly. To quote Rep. Yacovone, “To say that the health care system is unraveling is […]

Caledonian Record To the Editor: America’s current obsession with efficiency is absurd when you look at American healthcare. It is the epitome of inefficiency and it accounts for more than 17% of national GDP [https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-reports/national-health-expenditure-data/historical]. In Vermont, our 2019 healthcare cost of $6.5 billion [https://vtdigger.org/2021/05/12/vermonters-spent-6-5-billion-on-health-care-in-2019/] accounted for roughly 18.5% of VT’s 2019 GDP of $35 […]

VTDigger Dear Editor, I do not support the governor’s plan to consolidate school districts. I grew up outside of Denver Colorado, in a district roughly as populous as Vermont. And do you know what that school district is grappling with today? How to plug holes in its $1 billion budget without increasing property taxes for […]

VTDigger Dear Editor, Tom Sullivan is right that “It’s time to come together to find common ground and an amicable path forward for health care reform in Vermont.” But he lists the parties that should come together as “health care providers, regulators, insurance carriers and the Legislature.” What’s missing from that list? Patients: all those […]

Times Argus I just read the headline No silver bullet solution re health care/education/taxes. Actually, there is: Single payer would solve all those problems. Health care costs would go down, so education costs would go down, so taxes would go down — win-win-win. Sandra Bettis   Montpelier —

VTDigger Without a safe place to give birth, Lamoille County will lose more young families who are key to our future. The signatories to this open letter are listed below the text. To our Lamoille community, We, the undersigned, have learned that Copley Hospital’s leadership has proposed closing its birthing center and eliminating all pregnancy […]

Caledonian Record To the Editor: As the commercial healthcare industry launches a public defense of itself in the wake of the killing of United Healthcare’s CEO, many point to Canada and the UK as reasons to fear a single payer healthcare system for Americans. These single payer opponents seem to simply ignore the reasons that […]