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Vermont Digger Lawrence Miller’s job of fronting the state’s health care reform effort will not end anytime soon. Gov. Peter Shumlin on Thursday tabbed Miller, Secretary of the Agency of Commerce and Community Development, to become his senior adviser and chief of health care reform. Replacing Miller at ACCD will be Patricia Moulton, who previously […]

Vermont Public RadioBy Peter Hirschfeld Less than three years from now, Vermont is scheduled to make the transition to a single-payer health care system. And while the all-important question of how to pay for it has been put off until 2015, lawmakers say it’s time to start making some tough decisions about what that future […]

Single Payer Action A publicly funded, universal health care system would aid businesses by engendering a more dynamic economy, taming costs and freeing businesses that provide health insurance of the costs of administering benefits and subsidizing the nation’s health care, a Public Citizen report concludes. “Small businesses have rated the cost of health insurance as their […]

Vermont Commons Online By Randolph T. Holhut/The Commons GUILFORD—Vermont likes to think of itself as a leader in health care, but Peter Sterling will quickly tell you that doesn’t necessarily mean that everything is fine. There are 44,000 uninsured Vermonters, he says, and 70 percent cite cost as the reason why. If you are enrolled […]

Vox.com by Sarah Kliff on April 9, 2014 Saskatchewan is a vast prairie province in the middle of Canada. It’s home to hockey great Gordie Howe and the world’s first curling museum. But Canadians know it for another reason: it’s the birthplace of the country’s single-payer health-care system. In 1947, Saskatchewan began doing something very different from […]

Sunday morning MSNBC UP with Steve Kornacki interview Rep. Chris Pearson about Vermont’s plans to create a single payer health care system.   Click to watch Part 1 Click to watch Part 2  

Vermont Digger  Editor’s note: Jon Margolis is VTDigger’s political columnist. “What Went Wrong?” was how WCAX-TV (Channel 3) introduced its lead story last Friday evening, a story about the troubles of Vermont Health Connect. A lot had gone wrong, according to a report by the BerryDunn McNeil & Parker consulting firm. To be both brief […]

Addison Independent  By John Flowers MIDDLEBURY — Green Mountain Care Board member Dr. Allan Ramsay urged Addison County’s medical community to be patient as the state transitions to a new health care system that he acknowledged will be fraught with change and challenges. “One of the things I’ve learned intensely over the past two years is […]

Rutland HeraldBy DAVE GRAM MONTPELIER — Gov. Peter Shumlin was spared a tough squeeze Friday when his fellow Democrats in the Vermont House defeated a demand that he soon produce a financing plan for the universal, state-backed health care system he wants to launch in 2017. The battle was fought in a series of amendments […]

Vermont Public RadioBy Bob Kinzel Gov. Peter Shumlin is fiercely defending his plan to implement a single payer health care system after Senate President John Campbell expressed concerns about the plan. A number of Democrats are reluctant to commit to a single payer plan before there’s a comprehensive review of the $2 billion financing system […]