Letters

Deerfield Valley News My wife and I took a vacation in Maine in mid-September. In the lobby of the motel where guests flock for free coffee, I ran into two couples from Toronto. It didn’t take long for the Canadians to swing the conversation over to a subject that truly baffles them: how in the […]

 My wife and I took a vacation in Maine in mid-September. In the lobby of the motel where guests flock for free coffee, I ran into two couples from Toronto. It didn’t take long for the Canadians to swing the conversation over to a subject that truly baffles them: How in the world can the […]

Stowe Today To the Editor: I have been asked by many of my American friends and associates to provide information about the medical services available to Canadians who are both covered under the country-wide federal plan and under a company private plan. As a former Quebecer, now married to an American citizen and a permanent […]

Regarding the Vermont Public Radio news report on October 10 about how we will pay for single payer: It seems disingenuous for Randy Brock to complain about the administration bothering to make a recommendation in January 2013 that won’t be acted on immediately when he has been complaining all along about not getting the recommendation […]

I would like to endorse the Burlington Free Press’s endorsement of single-payer in Aki Soga’s editorial, “Give single-payer a try” (Sept. 28). As Mr. Soga suggested, Vermont has to move forward rather than backward and to finally come to grips with how health care is for us, the people, and not to benefit the profit […]

by Marvin Malek, MD MPH, who is an internist who works at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. In their efforts to thwart Vermont’s health reform effort, opponents of reform are peppering the media with scare tactics. Prominent on this list is the assertion that if we proceed with the reform effort, huge numbers of […]

Republican gubernatorial candidate Randy Brock’s health care proposal (“Brock says he got good ideas from Maine, Indiana, and Florida,” Times Argus, Sept. 9) is an enigma wrapped in a mystery and put into a fallacy. It is an enigma why Sen. Brock believes that the free market can, and is more than willing to, solve […]

Rutland Herald My Aunt Bessie often prefaced her remarks about a mutual acquaintance with “You couldn’t hope to meet a nicer guy.” Then she would trash him. I can only say about gubernatorial candidate Randy Brock’s health care plan (“Brock lays out plans for health care,” Sept. 9), “You couldn’t hope to meet a sweeter […]

Rutland Herald In the recent Times Argus/Rutland Herald article Randy Brock seems to think the “magic bullet” of the “free market” can be applied to health care and provide us with universal coverage. His thesis essentially says that all we have to do is deregulate the health insurance industry by relaxing community rating rules, make […]

Caledonian Record To the Editor: Randy Brock has released an outline of his health care proposal. It is a repeat of the same tired arguments that we have been hearing for decades, with ideas that are the foundation of our current dysfunctional American health care system. Mr. Brock repeats the free market myth about the […]