Editorial: Promises on health care reform not good enough

Posted on February 24, 2011 |

• Editorial

By Angelo S. Lynn

It is not just semantics that undermines Gov. Peter Shumlin’s push for a single-payer health care system when businesses, providers and patients hear the proposed reform as a promise instead of a guarantee. It’s today’s economic pressures, past practices that haven’t lived up to the hype, and a decision to delay any explanation of the financing that has people up in arms.

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