Letters

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 […]

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 […]

The Manchester Journal To the 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 […]

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 […]