Health care redux

posted February 24, 2006

Once again, politics has trumped reality when it comes to reforming the way Vermonters receive and pay for health care.

Democrats, who ran successfully in 2004 on a platform of health care reform and the hinted at a promise of a universal system that would insure all Vermonters, have caved to the veto threat of Republican Gov. Jim Douglas and are working to accommodate some of his limp proposals that do nothing but strike rhetorical chords.

Both Democrats and the governor are basing their ill-advised proposals on a funding source that is already projected to run deficits in several years, the so-called Global Commitment plan.

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