Letters

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 […]

Rutland Herald:   It is extremely disappointing to those of us who see a single-payer, universal health care system as the best way to provide health care to all Vermonters to learn what the Legislature has produced to “fix” our health care system. As with the rest of the country, we are left with a […]

Times Argus: The recent Times Argus editorial “Health care fiasco” points out the multiple problems, both technical and political, of Vermont Health Connect, the state’s version of the federally mandated Affordable Care Act. At this point it is still a quagmire of a nonfunctioning, convoluted and overly expensive attempt to provide health care for Vermonters. The […]

Rutland Herald: This is the story of my experience with Vermont Health Connect. I retired in the beginning of 2014. At that time our family was covered under my husband’s policy through his employer. My husband died in March of that year, and the coverage ended. I had the option of being covered as a […]

The Caledonian Record: How do you kill a bull with a red rag? Wendy Wilton ( It’s Time We Had The Facts On Vermont Health Connect, 3/13/2015) knows how: You wave it in the bull’s face and while he rages at it, you stab him between the shoulder blades.Wilton’s recent piece on questions the State Auditor […]

St Albans Messenger: Access to basic primary health care is something that many people don’t have (almost 1/3 of Vermonters have no insurance or are underinsured). Many policies have very large deductibles. This means that people must pay the full cost of an office visit to treat a common infection or other simple problem. Many who […]

VTDigger: Editor’s note: This commentary is by Walter Carpenter, a writer who lives in Montpelier and who has been active in the health care reform movement for many years after a severe medical crisis put him up against the private insurance industry. Although the governor put single-payer on hold, this does not mean Vermont cannot […]