Letters

Rutland Herald How very disappointing that Paul Krugman calls the ongoing fight for guaranteed health care for all Americans a “quixotic attempt” by progressives. Until insurance companies are not lined up at the trough, siphoning off health care dollars in the name of profit, our work is not done, and we will not give up […]

Bennington Banner Obamacare has definitely done some good. The main benefit has been to make health insurance available to many who did not have access before. Also patients with preexisting conditions cannot be denied coverage by the insurance companies. But Obamacare falls short in many ways: • About 25 million of us will be left […]

Rutland Herald The commentary “Primary care for all” describes two bills which propose to build a system of universal primary care in Vermont. These are H.207 and S.88. As I learned the difficult way through a near fatal experience some years ago, access to primary care is vital. Without it, problems can go either undetected […]

Bennington Banner John McClaughry’s column Vermont’s coming all payer ‘reform’ (09/30/2015) raises an awful lot of fears in its roughly 750 words. One thing it does not do is mention that since 1971 Maryland has been operating a version of the all payer system that applies to hospital care. Between 1976 and 2007, Maryland had […]

Times Argus I wear a button that says “Health care is a human right.” Growing up in Germany, I never ever thought that it couldn’t be. Yes, we had money taken out from our pay checks but it was definitely worth it: There was never a question or a problem to go to the doctor […]

Rutland Herald In her letter printed on Saturday, Nan Dubin made a very important point. Ms. Dubin wrote that it is time to remove profit-making incentives (specifically profit-making insurance companies) from health care. I absolutely agree. In a civil, democratic society, there are quite a few services that we agree to supply as a community […]

Rutland Herald Yes, we can allow anyone to open an urgent care facility which has minimal overhead compared to hospital emergency rooms. Why not? Let all the easy¬ to care ¬for patients give their money to the businessmen who would take “profits” from the hospital, and put them into their own pockets. We could even […]

Bennington Banner I would like to comment on two recent pieces in the Banner: First, Bob Stannard, who usually gets things right, says that Obamacare will provide universal health care. In truth, it will not. When Obamacare is fully implemented, there will still be 35,000,000 Americans without health insurance. This is not universal health care. […]

The Caledonian Record To the Editor: John McClaughry recently wrote a column, Sander’s Medicare-For-All Pipe Dream. John is not a fan of Senator Sanders or government-sponsored healthcare, so his opinion was quite predictable. For an honest look at how health insurance companies operate, I recommend following Wendell Potter (WendellPotter.com). He says, As a senior public […]

Rutland Herald The commentary, “Health care problems run deep” (Rutland Herald, June 14) was an excellent recipe for how not to return Vermont to prosperity in regards to health care reform. While the solutions for which the commentary advocates — make the exchanges voluntary, get rid of the Green Mountain Care Board’s rate-setting authority for […]