Dear Editor, Kevin Mullin, chair of the Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB), called our state’s health insurance premiums “unaffordable” in 2019. Those premiums have since risen, and double digit-plus increases were just approved for both Blue Cross and MVP, making […]
Tag: Healthcare
Letter, Opinion
Healthcare costs have deep roots
Dear Editor, I agree wholeheartedly that spending on healthcare is out of control. But when will we address the deeper reasons why this is so? We could certainly discuss the out-of-control salaries that administrators at many levels of this system […]
State News
Auditor: State spending on health care is ‘out of control’
By Christopher Ross/Addison County Independent BRISTOL — It took just six presentation slides by Vermont State Auditor Doug Hoffer to astonish the audience of a virtual healthcare talk hosted by Bristol Democrats earlier this month. State healthcare costs are soaring, […]
Column, Money Matters
The underutilized benefits of health savings accounts
By Kevin Theissen Healthcare can be one of the priciest yet most essential parts of life’s journey. And yet, many struggle to utilize the financial tools that may help. Take health saving accounts (HSAs), for example. In 2019, 55% of […]
Letter
The facts that matter
Dear Editor, Julie Wasserman recently laid out a wise series of questions that we should be asking in assessing Vermont’s current healthcare reform efforts. Among them: “What portion of school budget increases are attributable to the rising cost of health care?” Good […]
Featured, Local News
Welch tours Rutland County ahead of election
By Curt Peterson RUTLAND—Congressman Peter Welch began his July 30 campaign tour in Rutland County with a visit to the newly renovated Emergency Services Facility at Rutland Regional Medical Center. Welch is Vermont’s only representative in the United States Congress, […]
Letter, Opinion
Healthcare for all is needed now
Dear Editor, I am a father, husband, and small business owner, and my work is as a healthcare provider. Since going into business for myself in 2001, I have lived either without health insurance, or with uncertainty about insurance availability […]
Arts, Dining & Entertainment
Norman Williams Library program comparing on healthcare: Canada vs. U.S.
Wednesday, May 10, 4:30 p.m.—WOODSTOCK—Norman Williams Public Library will hosts a presentation, Improved Medicare for All, Wednesday, May 10, 4:30 p.m. It will begin with “The Healthcare Movie” at 4:30 p.m. followed by a presentation/Q&A session with Dr. Marvin Malek, […]
News Briefs
Healthcare planning workshop scheduled
It is hard to imagine ourselves in a situation where we don’t have the ability to make sound decisions regarding our health care. Yet planning for a time when we might not be capable of making important medical decisions is […]
Letter, Opinion
The next healthcare victim? Quite possibly you
Dear Editor, A healthcare crisis is coming down the road at very high speed. Getting rid of the ACA (Obamacare) is one of our new president’s top priorities. That will end subsidized health insurance under the ACA, and the ACA’s […]