Bill Schubart's Posts
A New Asylum for our Communities
The Weeks School Girls’ Dorm When I was young growing up in Morrisville, there were certain institutions that were invoked largely in an effort to ensure that we behaved. One… Read More
Do UVM Medical Center or its Parent UVM Health Network Continue to Deserve their tax-exempt Status?
During my long life, I’ve chaired 13 statewide nonprofit organizations, including the former Fletcher Allen Hospital, and served as a trustee on nine others. The first was the Vermont… Read More
Patient – Observer
I’ve written much about the state of healthcare in the nation and here in Vermont. As a former chair of then-Fletcher Allen Health Care some 20 years ago, a… Read More
The Moral Determinants of Learning
Photo By Glenn Russell of VTDigger.org Dr. Donald Berwick’s Moral Determinants of Health, presents the fundamental tenets of sound healthcare policy. It looks beyond healthcare infrastructure, such as providers, clinics… Read More
Comments to BCBS Annual Board Meeting; Woodstock Inn 062123
Thank you for the opportunity to talk with you today, I will use a portion of my time to raise what I feel are the key issues in healthcare today… Read More
The Arts: Back to Bohème?
Arts and culture are not exempt from the continuing concentration of great, if not excessive, wealth among fewer and fewer people while the number of poor only grows. Orchestra seats… Read More
Comments at Jim Morse’s Celebration of Life
We’re grateful to be here today to honor the memory of a dear friend and an extraordinary human being. I won’t replay for you Jim’s pioneering resume in Vermont and… Read More
Camping, Daycare, Early Education?
Image Courtesy of Oregon Public Broadcasting With the second highest per capita homeless rate in the nation, the legislature ended, as of July, current state funding for providing hotel/motel… Read More
Vermont Needs a Human Library
Image Couresty of the Human Library.org The Human Library movement has been with us since 2000. Human libraries have opened on six continents, with libraries in Louisiana and Indiana… Read More
Education or Childcare?
In the final moments of this legislative session, the legislature passed H.217, in which a combination of revenue resources will inject $130M a year into Vermont’s struggling childcare… Read More
We are letting our children down.
Photo courtesy Adam Swancor We are letting our children down. They’re our future and they may be the parents of our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, if we’re lucky. Signs of… Read More
