Letters

Letters: The health care debate continues Bennington Banner   As the health care debate has unfolded over the past few months, I have been listening to the various opinions put forth, pro and con. Some people think that health care should be a privilege, a commodity, remain tied to a job, and to make sure […]

(Times Argus) I am sick and tired of our political process being hijacked by the lobbyists. It affects the wars, our environment, our food and our health care. I am sorry that so many people can be bought. Single-payer is the only way to go. Almost everything else is a Band-Aid on a broken system. […]

Times Argus Single payer is logical choice In the next session of the Legislature, S.88, a Single payer health care bill, will have hearings in the Senate Health and Welfare committee, chaired by Doug Racine. (The House Health committee has a similar bill, H.100, but Chairman Steve Maier has refused to hold hearings so far.) […]

Article published Oct 26, 2009 Rutland Herald Educate on single-payer   At a recent forum hosted by the Friends of the Ripton Church, physicians Jack Mayer of Middlebury and Jeff and Carrie Wulfman of Ripton, and Middlebury College professor Ellen Oxfeld stressed the urgent need for reforming American health care. Dr. Mayer summarized the essence […]

Letter published in the Times Argus on October 9, 2009:  I want to thank Louis Porter of the Vermont Press Bureau for his story Slow Pace of health care reform sparks ire about the health care as a human right forum held on Sept. 22 at the Montpelier High School. The article speaks for itself, […]

Seven Days [Re “The Doctor Won’t See You Now,” September 1]: I seem to recall that two of the biggest arguments against a single-payer health care solution were lack of choice and long wait times. Glad we dodged that bullet. Ian VanKirk Essex Junction

Times Argus To the Editor: We recently learned the federal government has notified the state of Vermont that the enrollment targets for all-payer model (and thus, OneCare) are “unattainable” and “unnecessary.” This is an entirely new way to set standards. Imagine if a professor or teacher tells her students they need to write three papers, […]

Bennington Banner Vermont’s health care system is a ‘village on fire’ and the villagers don’t even get a say on the matter. Media recently reported that “Two health provider groups brought alarming anecdotes and statistics to the House Committee on Health Care.” The testimony was sufficiently alarming that one legislator compared Vermont’s health care system […]

Rutland Herald In his recent letter on health care reform, Shawn Shouldice neglects to specify that his concerns refer to the transitional “exchange” process, not the single-payer system being developed by the Green Mountain Care Board. As described by the GMC board at their open meeting on March 29, this simpler, more coordinated, incentive-driven approach […]

Bennington Banner 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 passage […]