Letters

Need a good health planner (Rutland Herald) Now that S.88 has become law, we will need a good architect to design a health care system for Vermont that is universal and can contain costs. Your editorial of May 23 mentions professor William Hsiao of the Harvard University School of Public Health. Professor Hsiao testified before […]

(Rutland Herald) The Vermont Legislature recently passed S.88, a health care reform bill. Vermont and Massachusetts have led the nation in health care reforms. These reforms have not been perfect, but are steps in the right direction. The 2010 federal health care bill was based in part on the Massachusetts model (signed by Mitt Romney) […]

Rutland Herald We Americans are alone among the citizens of the industrialized nations of the modern world to constrict access to affordable, quality health care for all of our people, denying it to many in fact. The corporations whose enormous profits flow from the present system (or a new one that would guarantee their advantage) […]

What Burton Actually Said (BFP) There he goes again. Burton’s decision to move its manufacturing jobs to Austria led the governor to say that taxes need to be rolled back. But the CEO said nothing about state taxes, which are a very small component of business costs (and of course we have no idea how […]

Published: March 18, 2010 (Rutland Herald) The Rutland Herald has published two letters from Michael and Judy Olinick relating to Vermonters’ access to health care. These letters have been followed each time by an answer by Ralph Colin. I believe the Olinicks’ first letter was a statement offered for readers to consider on the merits […]

Rutland Herald Replying to our March 4 letter, Ralph Colin asks us to explain how an individual state can adopt a single-payer health plan without overthrowing the federal government or eliminating the requirement that businesses contribute toward health insurance (or health care) for their employees. Neither we nor any single-payer supporters we know advocate overthrowing […]

Rutland Herald It should be clear now that whatever anemic health care bill President Obama wrings out of Congress will be a mockery of the thoroughgoing reform he promised during his campaign. The bill may include a few improvements to the current system, but there is no chance that it will achieve the goal of […]

Times Argus We have more than enough evidence that a single-payer system is the most fiscally conservative way to cover all Americans, yet Congress has refused to consider it seriously. People are dying from lack of access, businesses are failing while trying to pay for benefits for their employees and the U.S. economy is straining […]

Letter to the Editor (TA) It is now apparent that if any type of health care bill manages to come out of Congress, it will be so eviscerated that any attempt to call it reform would be ludicrous. Therefore it is imperative that Vermont takes the lead with its own healthcare reform in the form […]

Times Argus The Wall Street debacle cost trillions in undisclosed arrangements over and above the bailout-TARP funds which caught the public eye. None of the government intervention has addressed the underlying issues hindering the economy. One wonders if the house of financial cards will collapse again tomorrow or the day after. Furthermore, how we are […]