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VTDigger Morgan True Bids on a state contract to evaluate financing plans for a public, universal health care program in Vermont were due Tuesday. The selected vendor will design microeconomic models that will allow the Shumlin administration to test the economic impact of the different financing plans. The universal health care system is expected to […]

Rutland Herald The Associated PressMONTPELIER — The state plans to hire an analyst to help design a single-payer health care system, and officials are narrowing the options that could be used to raise about $2 billion in public financing for the program. Potential bidders for the single-payer design include consultants for the Massachusetts Institute of […]

VPR News By Peter Hirschfeld The Shumlin Administration will soon enlist outside analysts to help design a single-payer health care system. And state officials are beginning to narrow the options they could use to raise about $2 billion in public financing for the program. Potential bidders for the latest single-payer contract up for grabs in […]

By: MORGAN TRUE The CEO of Vermont’s largest hospital and health care system is concerned about whether a publicly financed health care program can consistently bring in enough money to cover the needs of all Vermonters. But state officials say they’ll be able to design a program that avoids the budgetary battles that plague Medicaid, the […]

 Rutland Herald Online   Insurance rate hikes proposed by Vermont’s two principal health insurers have raised new questions about whether the state will be able to afford the plan by Gov. Peter Shumlin to move to a single-payer health care system in 2017.Supporters of a single-payer system say the state can’t afford not to move […]

 Rutland Herald Online   Insurance rate hikes proposed by Vermont’s two principal health insurers have raised new questions about whether the state will be able to afford the plan by Gov. Peter Shumlin to move to a single-payer health care system in 2017.Supporters of a single-payer system say the state can’t afford not to move […]

A Panel Discussion hosted by Senator Bernie Sanders   Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen Gerald Friedman, Professor, Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Dr. Margaret Flowers, PopularResistance. org Dr. Andrew Coates, President, Physicians for a National Health Program Michael Lighty, Director of Public Policy, National Nurses United     Dr. Andrew Coates:   In a modern […]

 Burlington Freepress By: Nancy Remsen, Free Press Staff Writer MONTPELIER – Health care reform could easily have been the spotlighted topic of the 2014 legislative session given the nonstop headlines about Obamacare and insurance exchanges for the past six months. Add to that the fact that Gov. Peter Shumlin and the 2011 Legislature put the […]

Vermont Business Magazine By: Timothy McQuiston Citing as examples of what Vermont has done for renewable energy and the local food movement, Governor Peter Shumlin pushed for universal health care in a speech made at the closing of the Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility annual meeting. The 24th annual VBSR meeting was held Wednesday at […]

VPR By HAMILTON E. DAVIS The Legislature’s adjournment last week marked a third birthday of sorts for Gov. Peter Shumlin’s single-payer health care reform plan. The campaign has done well in some areas, not so well in others. It probably deserves a smallish cake. At the birth of the single-payer push in mid-winter of 2011, […]