Letters

Rutland Herald Despite recent confusion around federally mandated health care exchanges, work continues around the state to assure that we will have a single-payer system in 2017 that will result in more people getting better coverage for less money. This process doesn’t get much media attention, which is too bad because it is good news. […]

Brattleboro Reformer For years, Vermont has led the way in making health care accessible and affordable by giving low- and middle-income Vermonters the chance to buy insurance through the state’s VHAP and Catamount Health programs.However, Catamount Health and VHAP will be eliminated when Vermont’s Health Care Exchange begins in 2014. Approximately 30,000 of our fellow […]

Rutland Herald Predictably, Jeff Wennberg of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, in a recent Times Argus / Rutland Herald article, is trying to spread fear and mistrust, once again, of the Green Mountain Care single-payer health care plan due to be implemented in 2017. For example, the latest report by the UMass Medical group, that […]

Brattleboro Reformer Editor of the Reformer: Despite recent confusion around federally mandated health care exchanges, work continues around the state to assure that we will have a single-payer system in 2017 that will result in more people getting better coverage for less money. This process doesn’t get much media attention, which is too bad because […]

Rutland Herald Last week’s report to the Legislature on financing a single-payer health care system demonstrates once again that a single-payer system will provide comprehensive health care to all Vermonters at a lower cost. These are the two most important benefits of a single-payer system, universal coverage and manageable costs. According to the report, in […]

Rutland Herald The Shumlin administration presented a report on financing a single-payer health care system to the Legislature on Jan. 24. It once again demonstrates that we can provide comprehensive health care to all Vermonters at less overall cost. This is the last in a long line of official reports that has come to the […]

Rutland Herald Vermont is ahead of most other states in helping its citizens gain access to relatively affordable health coverage through programs like VHAP and Catamount Health. As someone doing outreach to educate Vermonters about and help them enroll in public health care programs, I see their benefits every day That’s why I am disturbed […]

Montpelier Bridge To the Editor: I am an uninsured resident of Vermont. I work on a fruit tree nursery in the Northeast Kingdom, doing work that I love and that contributes to the health of the land, the health of Vermonters and the local economy. I work hard and live simply, yet I cannot afford […]

Caledonian Record To the Editor: The announcement of large spikes in health care premiums for school and town employees is generating a lot of concern among taxpayers. Insurance companies are raising our premiums because they can’t make money on their investments. Since Wall Street trashed the financial system, stocks and bonds and money markets pay […]

Caledonian Record To the Editor: I really have to take issue with your recent editorial “A Funding Problem” (Dec. 12). You ask “What tax rates on personal and corporate income, capital gains, and net worth would be required to enable the Green Mountain Care Board to adequately cover the health care costs of up to […]