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Robert A. Miller

Single-payer health care works

Just visit a VA hospital and see

The national debate regarding health care rages on.

The Affordable Care Act - “Obamacare” - is a small step in the direction of providing affordable health care for all of us. It is by no means “socialized medicine” or single-payer health care.

Yet, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling, many people and most Republicans act as though this legislation is the end of the world as we know it.

On the other hand, people ignore that fact that there is at least one major example of successful single-payer health care in our country.

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A false argument over economics, safety

There have recently been a series of letters to you from friends and employees of Vermont Yankee, all in support of continuing the life of the aging and ailing reactor. “Issues” such as the numbers of lost jobs, the economic loss to the community, and the reduction of electric...

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