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This article is not directly connected to Vermont creating a single payer health care plan but one aspect of single payer is controling costs. Vermont Digger   The amendment, submitted by committee chairman Rep. Mike Fisher, D-Lincoln, would require pharmacy benefit managers to report the percentage or dollar amount they pocket on each claim charged […]

  Vermont Digger   Doug Hoffer The Vermont state auditor plans to look into how money was spent on Vermont Health Connect. Auditor Doug Hoffer said he will conduct a performance audit of the state-run online insurance marketplace, perhaps later this year. He has not determined what the scope of the audit will be. The […]

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 […]