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VTDigger By Morgan True A new report prepared for the Green Mountain Care Board confirms wide variations in the price of medical services throughout the state and examines policy approaches to regulate them. Prices that Vermont’s 14 hospitals and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire receive from commercial insurers vary by between 72 percent and […]

Valley News By Rick JurgensValley News Staff Writer West Lebanon — Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin promised Friday to continue to push for health care and education reforms if re-elected but said that no fresh injections of funding are expected for Vermont’s overloaded mental health care and prison systems. In a wide-ranging 75-minute talk with Valley […]

VTDiggerBy Morgan True Gov. Peter Shumlin and his top health care officials were in Washington, D.C., last week to discuss waivers to federal programs that would allow Vermont to move forward with a single-payer health care program. Traveling with Shumlin were Robin Lunge, director of health care reform; Lawrence Miller, chief of health care reform; […]

Vermont Public RadioBy Bob  Kinzel  Montpelier — State Auditor Doug Hoffer says an upcoming audit of Vermont Health Connect will reveal if the Shumlin Administration has effectively dealt with many of the problems that have surfaced at the exchange’s website. The results of the audit could play a critical role in the Legislative debate about […]

Stowe Today Two state officials tried last Friday to sell a room full of hospital executives on the state’s pending universal health insurance system by appealing to its fairness, while offering scant details on how the state would raise the $2 billion to fund it.Their remarks came during a panel discussion at the annual meeting […]

VTDiggerBy Morgan True Many people with chronic health conditions who are covered through Vermont’s exchange are finding it difficult to pay out-of-pocket costs for care, a consumer advocate says. Trinka Kerr, who leads Legal Aid’s Office of Health Care Advocate, told lawmakers this week that the problem is the way health plans offered through Vermont […]

Valley News By Rick JurgensValley News Staff Writer Stowe, Vt. — A roomful of hospital executives listened raptly Friday as a pair of Shumlin administration officials shared their thoughts, but few details, about how the state could raise $2 billion to pay for a universal health insurance program that could take effect in 2017. A […]

Stowe Today To the Editor: I would like to reply to Mr. Randy Brock’s column (Stowe Reporter Sept. 11), “Health Care parable: You can’t get there from here.” Mr. Brock’s parable is interesting, but excessively incomplete. He missed many of the streets leading into the “Old Free Market.” These are streets like “Claim Denial Street,” […]

VTDigger WINOOSKI — The Vermont Health Connect website was taken down Monday night and will remain offline to correct functionality problems and allow for improvements to data security, state officials said Tuesday. Customers who need to report changes in income or make changes to their coverage or personal information will need to contact the customer […]

Times Argus By Amy Ash Nixon Health care dominates gubernatorial debate : Times Argus OnlineTUNBRIDGE — Gov. Peter Shumlin, hoping to persuade voters to re-elect him so he can implement the nation’s first single-payer health care system, was pressed at the first 2014 gubernatorial debate Saturday to share details of the plan before the election. […]