Letters

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 […]

Rutland Herald: Beyond the accusations, rationalizations and gloating, the derailed progress toward universal, publicly funded health care is a tragedy for Vermont and for the rest of the country which might have followed our example as it often has. Yes, the funding is very complicated. But with strong enough commitment, dedicated minds can find a way. […]

Times Argus:  Rep. Don Turner’s op-ed, “Single Payer Already Took its Toll,” misses many key points about Vermont’s march toward single payer. This is most likely on purpose. One of these is when Turner dubbed our attempts at single payer “ideological experiment” and “egregious waste of taxpayer dollars and the administration’s human capital.” It is […]

Rutland Herald: Gov. Peter Shumlin has consistently dragged his feet on health care. The media called his near defeat in November a referendum on his policies, particularly his signature policy universal health care. But the referendum was over his feet dragging. He has consistently failed to present financing or other details for the universal health care […]

Rutland Herald: The key words in your Dec. 19 editorial are “abandoned … in the coming year.” Abandoned, yes, but not forever, like little pregnant Nell at the home for fallen women. Now that the financial information is out there, we can start dealing with it. For those who want it to be a spectator […]

The Colchester Sun: As a person who once had to pay $97,000 for one ill-timed medical expense, and now over $9,000 a month, healthcare is for me not just a human right but a matter of life and death. Can America afford to slowly put to death 315 million people just because of costs? A […]