Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Margaret Newton, MD, a retired physician who lives in West Brattleboro.
Republican Rob Roper, president of Ethan Allen Institute, has been claiming that Vermont’s universal health care law, Act 48, and Gov. Shumlin intend to take over Medicare, to administer and alter it. Three years later, we need to look forward, not backward.
After Act 48 was signed into law on May 26, 2011, by the governor, there was some public discussion by him and his administration that they would need to apply for and receive a federal waiver for permission to add the Medicare payments for care rendered/received, to the Green Mountain Care insurance pool of insurance receipts, in order to use this money to help fund the new program. … continue to site