Letters

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 […]

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 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 […]

Rutland Herald Vermont has accomplished more than most states to help working Vermonters gain access to affordable health coverage through programs like VHAP and Catamount Health. We are at the forefront of heath care reform and once again Vermont was named as the healthiest state in the nation. Why would Gov. Shumlin advocate for increasing […]

Rutland Herald   As director since 2000 of a program whose mission is to help the uninsured and underinsured stay healthy, I was concerned with Gov. Peter Shumlin’s comments in Sunday’s Rutland Herald and Times Argus saying that “state health care subsidies for working class Vermonters might be more generous than they need to be, […]

Burlington Free Press The arrival of Human Right’s Day (Monday) is especially noteworthy this year; international public health groups such as the World Health Organization are seriously considering the possibility of achieving universal health care throughout the entire world in the not too distant future. Despite being the wealthiest nation in the world, the United […]