Letters

Times Argus: Thank you, Dr. Michael Scollins, for your letter to The Times Argus reminding us that as Rome wasn’t built in a day, a single-payer health care plan won’t be either. Reminding us of successful single-payer plans already in operation in this country like Social Security and Medicare show that it certainly can be done […]

Times Argus: Why are the costs for single payer so high? Right now, in Vermont at least, we have Medicaid for low income folks. Who pays for that? What were the startup costs for that? How is that sustainable? It seems to me that single payer — where we all pay in what we can […]

 Rutland Herald:  Regarding the Jan. 8 State House protests: We are in a nation that began with the likes of Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty, and in a state established by the outlaw Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, and some of us are concerned that the State House might witness further […]

 Times Argus:  Justice for all As a registered nurse, I am held responsible to follow a set of ethical principles that guide my work: non-maleficence (do no harm), beneficence (do good), respect for the autonomy of individuals, truthfulness, and justice. I am proud to be achieving the first four principles in my work, but to […]

 Rutland Herald: On Thursday, Jan. 8, I was arrested. I was taken into custody by state police for standing up for the rights of the people of Vermont. Hundreds of us from all over the state went to the State House to speak out for our human right to health care after the governor took it […]

The Caledonian Record. To the Editor:Your editorial, Yeah, Right, (1/6) is spot on for identifying Gov. Shumlin’s campaign tactic, but misfires on his policy error: The reason he has deferred his decades-long push for health care reform (he committed to it first in 1994) was that he did not look far enough afield.He missed the […]

St. Albans Messenger: Mr. [Jim]Fitzgerald: There is something much bigger going on here. It is unfortunate that you chose to belittle these folks for trying to improve our current health care system. A system that is dysfunctional, at best – inaccessible, unsustainable and that you yourself, given the right circumstances, could find yourself unable to […]

The Valley Reporter: About the only thing I learned from Steve Allen’s letter The Unaffordable Care Act, Part Two (The Valley Reporter, 12/24/14) is that he does not like liberal/socialism. I wonder why. Whenever he drives on a road, for example, plowed and maintained by the state or town, sends his children to school, goes to […]

Rutland Herald: I have questions about Governor Shumlin’s cessation of single-payer health care for Vermont. — Was there a coalition of conservative Democratic and Republican legislators who threatened to vote for the Republican gubernatorial candidate if Shumlin carried out his plan for Act 48? — Why the failure in gaining the promised federal funding? After three […]

Rutland Herald: In response to Enid K. Reiman’s letter, we are encouraged to know she recognizes the health care delivery system in the U.S. “needs to be fixed.” Without quoting figures everyone has heard, we know that we have the most expensive health care of all industrialized countries and that we provide a much lower […]