Letters

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

Burlington Free Press Skeptics and opponents of Green Mountain Care want to see the money: where are the savings promised by Dr. Hsaio when he urged Vermont to go for single payer? Are the savings in all Vermonters having access to health care for the same amount of money being spent now? Are the savings […]

Times Argus Re: “Health care freedom at risk” by Jeff Wennberg in Sunday’s paper: Mr. Wennberg makes every effort to scare Vermonters about a future in which universal health care will be implemented in Vermont. I won’t quibble with his opinions, but when he claims them to be truths, it’s time for a fact check. […]

Rutland Herald Over the last several months Wendy Wilton has garnered a lot of attention with her “Model of Green Mountain Care.” She often shares the table with prominent Republican leaders including Randy Brock. I think it is time we look at her numbers closely and share her errors with the public. Reviewing Wendy Wilton’s […]