Richard Davis, the Executive Director of Vermont Citizens Campaign for Health, was a guest on the Anthony Polina radio show Equal Time today. I called into the show to talk about the primary study that Davis' organization cites for promoting Universal Health Care...
If you are a business that does not currently offer health care, you will pay nearly $1,500 per employee according to this study. I mentioned this on the air.
This study is the primary source cited by Vermont Citizens Campaign for Health to promote the Universal Health Care system in Vermont. You may find this source cited on their webpage titled: Myths and Misconceptions about single-payer health care. It's the study called "the August 2001 report from the Lewin Group."
After I was done speaking on the radio show, Mr. Davis said there were many problems and discrepancies in the report. In his exact words, "A lot of the assumptions are flawed."
Yet this is the report his own organization chooses to use when he tells us how much money the state would save.
If the report is flawed as he says it is, how does Mr. Davis justify using it for his organization's purposes? He is simply pulling the information he wants out of the study and ignoring the parts that do not benefit his point of view.
Please comment on this story. This is a very important, and potentially very expensive, issue in the state.