Letters

Brattleboro Reformer In response to Jeffrey Wennberg’s column (Debating the future of health care in Vermont, March 24): Wennberg wants it both ways. He seems to deny that his group………offers no alternative health care reform plan, yet his lengthy editorial passes up the opportunity to tell us what that alternative might be. All he has […]

The Mountain Times Dear Editor, Many Vermonters have expressed concerns about the transitional health care exchange process. It is important to keep in mind that this is not part of the single-payer system being developed by the Green Mountain Care Board. Under the benefits plan described by the GMC Board all Vermonters will have a […]

Seven Days Thanks so much for the article “Spin Doctors” by Kathryn Flagg in the March 21 edition of Seven Days. It is refreshing to have the “spin doctors” shown for what they are and what they are trying to do. If anyone wants to understand what they are propagating, try going through the American, […]

The Mountain TimesDear Editor, You may not have seen it, but the folks at Vermonters for Health Care Freedom (VHCF) have made a pretty slick 8-minute video that they apparently sent to all our Vermont legislators. The crux is that our health care reform is too untested, too complicated, just beyond our abilities to institute. […]

Rutland Herald I moved to Vermont 10 years ago, fully expecting to retire here as I had stream of income that would get me to the age of 63 and, I thought, enough savings to make it to Social Security and Medicare. Then, slowly, the reality of health insurance hit. My wife and I watched […]

Colchester SunBruce Lisman’s March 29 perspective in The Colchester Sun (“Vermont fails at transparency”) raises questions of risks and uncertainties as Vermonters grapple with health care. While acknowledging that significant change carries with it significant risk, I would point out that Vermonters elected Peter Shumlin as governor on his willingness to attempt to tackle rising […]

Bennington Banner Governor Peter Shumlin recently stated that regardless of the U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the Affordable Care Act, Vermont can and must continue down the road of creating a single payer health care system. He is right. No matter what happens at the federal level, we Vermonters are already paying the bill for […]

Rutland HeraldI would like to respond to Mr. Jeff Wennberg’s commentary “Health Care Freedom at Risk” in the March 18 edition of the Times-Argus. Mr. Wennberg, the new executive director of Vermonters For Health Care Freedom, suggests that a publicly-financed health care system will, in short, eliminate choices, and turn things over to a “single, […]

Burlington Free Press I have to object to the coordinated campaign to convince Vermonters that our health care reform law is some crazy radical idea being foisted on an unsuspecting public. For an idea that opponents consistently mischaracterize as radical and destructive of freedom, it certainly has some strong support from mainstream folks. Start with […]

Burlington Free Press A recent (Feb. 26) letter in the Free Press (How will health care be financed) questioned how Vermonters will finance health care in the wake of the landmark bills passed by the Vermont Legislature in the past two years (Acts 48 and 559). The sudden emergence of citizens asking similarly thoughtful questions […]