Letters

Times Argus If you are worried about “healthcare rationing,” I have some news. It isn’t rationing when a boy has to wait hours in a Canadian ER with a non life-threatening problem. This happens in any ER: if you aren’t going to die, you have to wait behind those who might. I’ve had the same […]

Burlington Free Press I would like to respond to the letter “Canada Wrong Model,” by Mr. Dan McCauliffe, in the June 10 Free Press. Mr. McCauliffe wrote that “Canadian-style health care is a bad model for Green Mountain Care.” There are several points in this letter that need to be addressed or clarified. First, I […]

Burlington Free Press Randy Brock’s primary strategy to become our next governor is to target Act 48 and Green Moutain Care and prevent the eventual transition to universal health care such as “single payer.” These attacks include blaming Act 48 for the closing of the Rutland Regional Rehab Center due to a duplication of services […]

Bennington Banner I’m Jeffrey Haslett, a member of the Vermont Workers Center and the State Coordinator for the We the People Congress and Constitutional Lobby. Article 20 of our Vermont Constitution gives we the people a right to petition our government or to â¤instruct their Representatives. So, we the people are petitioning Green Mountain Care […]

Bennington Banner I am a small business owner living and working in Burlington, and I am a member of the Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign. As an entrepreneur, I am proud to be able to create jobs in my community, but I want to be able to provide good, family supporting jobs. Providing health […]

Rutland Herald Randy Brock’s primary strategy to become our next governor is to target Act 48 and Green Mountain Care and prevent the eventual transition to universal health care such as “single payer.” These attacks include blaming Act 48 for the closing of the Rutland Regional Medical Center rehab center due to a duplication of […]

Brattleboro Reformer Editor of the Reformer: John McLaughry writes (Decoding the language of Green Mountain Care, June 11) about Green Mountain Care, the health care system now being developed for Vermont. He faults the GMC board, headed by Anya Rader Wallack, for dodging the term single payer in describing the unified and universal health care […]

Times Argus John McClaughry’s June 11 letter “Decoding the language of Green Mountain Care” is vintage McClaughry. The Shumlin administration’s Green Mountain Care represents, for McClaughry, a perfect storm battering his libertarian ideals. McClaughry considers the GMC board’s use of language misleading and opaque, but McClaughry’s own writing could do with some decoding. He claims […]

Times Argus Mr. Brock’s idea of increasing the number of medical insurance companies for greater “competition” as a counter to the current health reform is a bad idea. One of the major problems in our current medical care delivery system is the insurance industry. Each insurance company negotiates a different payment/charge for every hospital. In […]

Rutland Herald Randy Brock, the Vermont Republican gubernatorial candidate advocates opening Vermont up to all kinds of private health insurance including, in his words, “high-deductible policies.” In your paper’s recent article on Brock’s health care plan (May 25), he states, “We can ensure that health insurance is available to everyone and no Vermonter is bankrupted […]