Letters

Times Argus Skeptics and opponents of Green Mountain Care want to see the money: Where are the savings promised by professor William Hsiao 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 in […]

Burlington Free Press Diane Ballou (How will health care reform be financed? Feb. 26) asks to know how Vermont’s new health care system will be paid for. This is like expecting an excavator to give you a bid on fixing your driveway without knowing what’s wrong with it, how long it is, or what kind […]

Rutland Herald The recent negative ads on TV and radio by the mysteriously funded group, Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, are an obvious attempt to derail any future universal health care plan. However, if they are truly interested in real health care freedom for Vermonters, as their name implies, they should actually support a single-payer […]

    Washington World Editor:   It is in the interest of every Vermonter to support the Vermont Legislature’s efforts to plan and implement a single payer health care system. It is important to realize that as a single state among 50, we must comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted by Congress last […]

Rutland HeraldA recent article in the Herald and Times Argus (Feb. 19) convinced me there is a lot of smoke blowing around in the conversations about the cost of changes in health care. Some is based on estimates and projections, and some is clearly purposeful misinformation. But it is all made up. The simple truth […]

Rutland Herald Vermonters for Health Care Freedom is an apparently well-funded group that is opposed to the effort in Vermont to establish a universal single-payer health care system. They have recently begun airing an ad on WCAX that is, in my opinion, misleading. It is misleading as to the cost of the new health care […]

Rutland Herald Opponents of Vermont’s future single-payer health care system need to look ahead into the realities of health care financing in both Vermont and the nation. The Rutland Herald recently reported “universal opposition from residents” during a packed Feb. 18 forum in Wells that considered the pros and cons of a single-payer system in […]

Rutland HeraldThe organization “Vermonters for Health Care Freedom” is running a web ad in which a woman complains that Gov. Shumlin wants to “uproot” our current health care “system” and spend $5 billion for a single-payer system. She implies that the governor is dishonest in refusing to reveal how he intends to raise the $5 […]

Stowe ReporterI would like to respond to the letter “Can Vermont fix health care?” by Helene Martin in the Feb. 9 edition of the Stowe Reporter. “I worry,” Ms. Martin wrote, “that Vermont … will not be able to afford to fix our broken health-care system, but believe we are trying.” We are trying. Like […]

Times Argus  Misleading information and other distortions have plagued efforts for real health care reform in the past and will no doubt again in the future. For example, John McClaughry states in his recent Times Argus article (Jan. 26) that Vermont has only two health insurance carriers “thanks to laws passed in 1991 and 1992 […]