Bill Schubart’s dire predictions about Vermont’s outlying hospitals overlook some important issues (Guest editorial, July 2). Vermont can, in fact, sustain its rural hospitals. It is a matter of reallocating our state and federal budgets. For example, do we really need to maintain a huge military on such a global scale? Closing our hospitals will do nothing to lower our health care costs, it will simply transfer the needs and costs to the larger hospitals. Any closing will be a step back when we should be l … (read more)
