Why the U.S. Isn't Ready for Single Payer Yet

Dr. Samuel Metz , an anesthesiologist in Oregon, has a letter in the August 27 New York Times arguing for a single payer system in the U.S....

Moving Towards a Single Payer in Vermont

If you're interested in Vermont's plan for a single payer system, you'll want to look at an article in this week's New Engl...

Ground Rules for the Single Payer Debate in Vermont

The national debate about health reform has been dominated by sloganeering. Polling suggests that the public does not understand the drivers...

States are the Hotbed for Medical Ethics

On Tuesday, by voting to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), all 242 Republicans in the House of Representatives pr...

Single Payer Proposal in Vermont

On May 27, 2010 Vermont Act 128 - "An act relating to health care financing and universal access to health care in Vermont" - was...

Consumer Directed Health Care Can Work!

On Thursday during a break in the cloudy/rainy weather in Vermont, I took the 3/4 mile hike up to Lake Pleiad , a mountain lake that's a...

Single Payer System for Vermont

Vermont is the second smallest state in the U.S. (2009 population - 621,000), but from the perspective of health reform, it's the most i...

The Ethical Culture of Medicine

I'm in the Green Mountains of Vermont now, where my wife teaches for 7 weeks at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English . ...

A Needed Speech about Health Care Rationing

The October “ Election 2008 ” survey from the invaluable Kaiser Family Foundation election tracking project sent me to my file cabinet. In J...