Letters

Brattleboro Reformer How very wonderful and appropriate for newspapers, TV and radio to share Veterans Day stories and photographs of veterans who have risked their health and lives for their country. What troubles me is our government’s uneven response to veterans’ post-war health care needs. Many vets may be unaware that they are not automatically […]

Times Argus   In 2004, at the age of 57, I gave up my health insurance because I could no longer afford the premium. I lived without medical care of any kind, hoping that I would survive until 65. When I finally qualified for Medicare, I found a doctor. He sent me for all the […]

Rutland Herald I would like to respond to the letter “Illogical path for health care “ in the Oct. 29 edition of the Rutland Herald. The author’s main points here are that single-payer health care is illogical and that universal care advocates are “like children clamoring for lollipop treats and not giving a thought to […]

Rutland Herald With the confusion surrounding the national health care system it is important to clarify what is actually happening in Vermont. Americans will soon be required to have health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This will probably be better for people across the country, but in Vermont it is not for many. […]

Burlington Free Press Tom Licata’s letter to the editor “Say no to more government ,” (Burlington Free Press, Oct. 15) states that “Government controlled single-payer health care violates both your sovereign and natural rights.” This statement completely ignores that we the people are the government.While this is often difficult to grasp in how our government, […]

Rutland Herald The problems with the ACA (Obamacare) website illustrate our convoluted, fragmented, overly expensive, and unequal health insurance system. The ACA has some long overdue reforms — the elimination of pre-existing conditions and very large deductibles and setting an annual cap of out-of-pocket costs. However, this is still an inefficient and cumbersome private insurance-based […]

Burlington Free Press Many people commenting on Vermont’s health care reform have confused the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) and our state’s universal health care plan that has yet to be implemented. It is important that Vermonters understand that these are two different programs, based on two very different approaches to health care and health […]

Manchester Journal To the Editor: Ron Roper’s column (A Premium is not a Tax, Nov. 10), makes a case against publicly funded universal health care by emphasizing the differences between a health insurance premium and a tax. He says that universal care will be Creating a government monopoly funded by a payroll tax on job […]

Bennington Banner While Vermont and the rest of the nation struggle to phase in Obamacare, we should keep in mind that even when fully implemented Obamacare will not insure everyone. According to recent Census Bureau estimates, in 2012 there were 48 million uninsured Americans. It is estimated that 48,000 Americans died needlessly last year because […]

The Colchester Sun In Emerson Lynn’s editorial about payroll taxes for a proposed single-payer health insurance plan in Vermont (“A payroll tax? How far down the road are we?” Sept. 26), he correctly points out that we need a detailed plan to see how such taxes would impact different businesses large and small. This is […]