Vermont Public Radio By PETER HIRSCHFELD Vermont’s Coalition for Universal Reform is an advocacy organization pushing for single payer health care. The fight for single payer health care promises to be one of the heaviest political lifts in state history. And a new group is about to put some financial weight behind the lobbying push. […]
Read moreVermont Digger The Vermont Senate doesn’t intend to sit on its hands when it comes to health care reform this session. Frustration with the troubled rollout of Vermont Health Connect has undermined public confidence in the state’s ability to execute reform plans, and senators say they are intent on ensuring the same mistakes aren’t repeated […]
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Read moreVermont Digger Health care providers and insurers joined Gov. Peter Shumlin Wednesday to announce two new programs they hope will contain system-wide costs and improve treatment quality. “We all know that as we move to the first sensible health care system in America we’ve got to find a way to deliver better quality care for […]
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Read moreVermont Digger WASHINGTON, March 11 – A Senate panel chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) heard today that other major countries offer better health care at less cost than the United States. “What this hearing is really about is two fundamental issues. First, the U.S., the wealthiest country on the planet, is the only major […]
Read moreStowe TodayBy: Lee Russ, Bennington Rep. Heidi Scheuermann’s column “Single-payer system: an unhealthy choice” (Feb. 20) spends more time criticizing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and our state’s online health exchange than it does explaining her opposition to single payer health care. It makes no sense to use problems with the ACA rollout as a […]
Read moreVermont Public Radio By: Bob KinzelLegislative leaders say putting together a plan to finance a single payer health care system during the 2015 session is a very aggressive goal. But they say it’s also a timeline that’s critical to meet if the state is going to implement a publicly financed system in 2017. The two key […]
Read moreVermont Public Radio By Peter Hirschfeld Former House Majority Leader Floyd Nease, who left the Statehouse in 2011, has been tapped to join Gov. Peter Shumlin’s single payer team. In this Jan. 5, 2011 file photo, Nease speaks with Secretary of State Deb Markowitz.Credit Toby Talbot / AP As the Shumlin Administration fine tunes its […]
Read moreSeven Days by Paul Heintz @paulheintz Nearly two months into the legislative session, the scene at the Statehouse remains unusually slow. It’s the calm before the storm. Next spring, if Gov. Peter Shumlin gets his way, the legislature will vote on a historic, expensive and politically perilous bill to finance the governor’s long-sought goal of […]
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