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Unemployed could lose health insurance subsidies Burlington Free Press By Dan McLean, Free Press Staff Writer Federal subsidies that cover about two-thirds of the cost of COBRA health care for unemployed workers began to run out Tuesday, according to a report issued by Families USA. A roughly $25 billion slice of the $787 billion stimulus […]

Heath care debate poised to take center stage when Vermont lawmakers return this winter Time Argus By DANIEL BARLOW Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER – The question Rep. Paul Poirier hears from Vermonters most is, What the heck are you going to do about these premiums that keep going up and up? Poirier, a Barre City […]

Forum rallies support for single-payer care NEAL P. GOSWAMI Bennington Banner BENNINGTON — Several panelists spoke in favor of a single-payer health care system at a health care forum Thursday night, but significant barriers remain to achieving that goal. The forum, organized by the Vermont Workers Centers, was meant to rally support for pushing state […]

 Burlington Free Press Sanders not quitting on single-payer By Nicole Gaudiano, Free Press Washington Writer WASHINGTON — As the spotlight on health care reform shifts from the House to the more conservative Senate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will be pushing for a hard left turn in the form of a single-payer system. The Vermont independent […]

(NYT) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — What’s all the fuss about? After all the noise over Democrats’ push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carriers, coverage numbers are finally in: Two percent. That’s the estimated share of Americans younger than 65 who’d sign up for the public option plan under […]

Article published Oct 29, 2009 Times Argus Sanders to push for single-payer By DANIEL BARLOW VERMONT PRESS BUREAU MONTPELIER — U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders will likely make history this year when — for the first time ever — he brings a bill creating a national single-payer health care system to the floor of the Senate […]

By Aaron E. Carroll, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine The Huffington Post We’re so close to health care reform! Even Paul Krugman is starting to talk about what comes next. Me? I’ve been thinking about what comes next for a long time. I think this bill will pass. We will get […]

Health Care Reform: What is the ‘Make or Break’ issue? It’s the COST Vermont Business Magazine Cornelius Hogan The uncontrolled rising cost of health care is a virulent cancer that is infecting all aspects of our economic and family lives. It has metastasized well beyond what it has done to our ability to obtain access […]

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Montpelier Article published Jun 28, 2009 (RH/TA) Myths of the medicine line A cross-border argument for Canadian-style health care Randal Smathers Myth: In Canada, government bureaucrats decide who gets treated, when and by whom. Canadian doctors have both private and hospital practices, same as here; they get paid by the government instead of Medicaid, Medicare […]