Over 200 individuals participate in VPIRG’s interactive health care webinar
For immediate release Feb 8. 2012 Contact Cassandra Gekas Health Care Advocate, VPIRG Office: (802) 223-5221 x21...
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Davis: Canadian system not a model for Shumlin, as McClaughry asserts
Peter Shumlin signed the historic health care reform act on the Statehouse steps on Thursday. VTD/Taylor Dobbs. Editor’s note: This post is a column by Hamilton Davis, a former lawmaker, managing...
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Democrats, Republicans draw battle lines on House health care debate
Gov. Peter Shumlin, Feb. 22, 2012. VTD/Alan Panebaker As the House health care reform bill heads to the floor for debate, both sides of the issue framed their strategies Wednesday. At Gov. Peter...
View ArticleMcClaughry: The health insurance exchange: your questions answered
Editor’s note: This op-ed is by John McClaughry, the vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute. Many members of the Vermont House uncomfortably confided that they really didn’t understand what they...
View ArticleWennberg: Health care freedom at risk
Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Jeff Wennberg, the executive director of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom. Apparently Vermonters for Health Care Freedom is making progress. The fury and frequency of...
View ArticleVermonters for Healthcare Freedom: Senate ignores Vermonters, goes for the...
For immediate release April 25, 2012 Contact Vermonters for Health Care Freedom info@vthealthcarefreedom.org The Vermont Senate is nothing if not consistent. Following yesterday’s three hours of debate...
View ArticleWennberg: H.559: Follow the money
Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Jeff Wennberg, the executive director of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom. Despite two days of heated debate the Vermont Senate surprised no one by passing H.559, the...
View ArticleUpdated schedule for Health Care Reform Listening Sessions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 9, 2012 Contact Marisa Melamed 802-828-2316 Updated Schedule of Health Care Reform Listening Sessions on Benefits; Session in Bennington Rescheduled to June 13th Health Care...
View ArticleUpdated schedule of Health Care Reform listening sessions on benefits
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 9, 2012 Contact: Marisa Melamed 802-828-2316 Session in Bennington Rescheduled to June 13th Health Care Reform Listening Sessions on Benefit Design This spring the Agency of...
View ArticleThe Commons: Scare tactics by state GOP target Vermont health-care reform
Editor’s note: This editorial was originally published in The Commons issue #155 (Wednesday, June 6, 2012). It is no surprise that the Vermont Republican Party has been one of the most vigorous critics...
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The single-payer framework: An analysis of the opponents’ arguments
StockXchng image. Editor’s note: This is the third in a three-part analysis of the Shumlin administration’s plans for a single-payer health care system. When we looked at Democratic Gov. Peter...
View ArticleMcClaughry: Decoding the language of Green Mountain Care
Editor’s note: John McClaughry is vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute. The Shumlin administration is proceeding at flank speed to realize its breathtakingly ambitious promise of “comprehensive,...
View ArticleMcCauliffe: Canadian health care system not a good model for Green Mountain Care
Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Daniel McCauliffe, MD. He is a dermatologist with a private practice in Rutland. Almost everyone agrees that the U.S. health care system is in dire need of reform, but...
View ArticleWennberg: Comments on “The single-payer framework” series
Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Jeff Wennberg, the executive director of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom. VTDigger recently ran a series of three articles by Hamilton Davis regarding Vermont’s...
View ArticleParke: Health care cost — Myth versus reality
Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Ethan Parke, a resident of Montpelier. Single payer critics warn that Vermont should not go forward with Green Mountain Care because there are too many unknowns. But one...
View ArticleMcClaughry: Robin Hood in reverse
Editor’s note: This op-ed is by John McClaughry, vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute. He was a senator in the 1991-1992 Vermont Legislature. Vermont’s 20-year-old Robin Hood in reverse health...
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Vermont Workers’ Center proposal outlines health care financing plan
It’s been 18 months since Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a bill calling for the creation of a publicly financed, universal health care system. Now, one of the leading advocates of that bill is pushing for...
View ArticleWilton: Green Mountain Care tax a big gamble for Vermont
Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Rutland City Treasurer Wendy Wilton, who was a candidate for state treasurer in 2012. She is the recipient of the 2012 Vermont Municipal Clerks and Treasurers Treasurer...
View ArticleMcClaughry: 11 things to know about “health care reform”
Editor’s note: John McClaughry is vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute. Gov. Peter Shumlin signed Act 48 into law in 2011, and Act 171 in 2012. Together they promise the achievement of the...
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Doctors, supporters protest rate-setting provision; legal challenge possible
Dr. Dan McCauliffe of Rutland was one of a handful of doctors who spoke out on Wednesday at the Statehouse in opposition a key provision of Act 48. Photo by Andrew Stein A bipartisan group of...
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