Letters

Rutland Herald Last week I spent the day of the elections at Hartford High school, asking people to sign petitions in support of the Healthcare is a Human Right campaign. One of the points I pressed was no matter what happened in the voting booth, we must continue to hold our politicians accountable for the […]

Time Argus On a typical foggy September morning I was commuting to work on my bicycle and every car was shrouded in a 50-foot cocoon of visibility. It occurred to me that what I was seeing was similar to how so many of us live — day to day — in our own protective cocoons. […]

Brattleboro Reformer You’re so sharp you’ll cut yourself, the old saying goes, and a lot of people post-election think that applies to Peter Shumlin. He withheld his single-payer plan until 2015, the reasoning goes, to avoid taking a political risk, and doubting his resolve, the left stayed home, or cast a protest vote. I don’t […]

The Valley Reporter By concerned Medicare recipients. Be afraid …be very afraid! But be sure you don’t do any research to learn the facts. Vermont seniors are being told that if Vermont’s single-payer health care (Green Mountain Care) becomes law in 2017, we’re all in jeopardy of losing or seeing drastically reduced Medicare and Medicare […]

Valley ReporterBy Walter Carpenter I would like to respond to the My View commentary Green Mountain Care and Medicare (The Valley Reporter, 10/30/14) by Gene Bifano. Unfortunately, it is difficult within the brief span of a letter to call all the bluffs this piece makes in order to attempt to deliver its true intent: spreading […]

The Valley Reporter By Chuck Gregory Gene Bifano’s piece (Green Mountain Care and Medicare, 11/6/14) is being laughed off the stage by us seniors. Anybody who believes AARP is better than socialism does not know AARP. Rather than fight to protect us against the destruction of Medicare, it supported the Republicans’ attempt in 2003 to […]

Rutland Herald Peter Shumlin won the popular vote. Presumably, many of us voted for him in part because we support his vigorous efforts to move Vermont to a single-payer system, removing insurance company profits from the equation of health care costs. This is simply an excellent way to pay for health care, for all Vermonters […]

Valley News “Single-Payer Supporters Push Ahead” (front page, Nov. 6) has it just right. We do not see Gov. Shumlin’s near-defeat as a referendum on health care reform at all. Vermonters are hungry for a universal, simplified and less costly system and so are many of our leaders in the state Senate and House of […]

Times Argus I am very upset that people think that the narrow vote for Shumlin is a vote against single payer. It might be a vote against the present health care system (or lack thereof) but I do not see it as a vote against single payer. Single payer and the present system have nothing […]

Time Argus In his recent op-ed decrying rising health care costs, Don George says Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont is a nonprofit whose guiding principle is “putting Vermonters first.” Oops. He forgot to mention that his predecessor took a $7.9 million bonus when he left. To put that in perspective, for my current $1,240 […]