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Vermont 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 […]

Seven 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 […]

Vermont Public Radio By Bob Kinzel Green Mountain Care Board Chair Al Gobeille, pictured here at the Vermont Statehouse on Jan. 7, says an affordable, publicly-financed health care system will require additional tax revenue.Credit Angela Evancie / VPR Al Gobeille, the chair of the Green Mountain Care Board, says additional tax revenue will be needed […]

Click on the direct link above to listen to the 45 minute recording of  this Vermont Edition. By Bob Kinzel and Patti Daniels The Green Mountain Care Board is trying to create an affordable, publicly financed health care system for Vermont by 2017. The chair of that board, business-owner Al Gobeille, says the current financing […]

VPR By Peter Hirschfeld The state’s largest union is throwing its weight, and its money, behind the push for single-payer health care. And the move by the Vermont teachers union lends considerable strength to what will be the heaviest political lift of Gov. Peter Shumlin’s career. Labor groups have had good reason to be skeptical […]

Times Argus Online MONTPELIER — A Shumlin administration proposal to double the tax on health care claims will add significant costs to businesses and individuals already struggling to pay for health care, opponents of the plan told the House tax-writing committee Wednesday. Meanwhile, members of the House Ways and Means Committee signaled they will seek […]

By Neal P. GoswamiVermont Press BureauMONTPELIER — Taxpayers will need to raise between $1.77 billion and $2.18 billion to cover the costs of Gov. Peter Shumlin’s proposed single-payer health care system, according to a consensus cost estimate revealed Thursday. The consensus figures fall between the estimates of two earlier reports. An analysis by the University […]

By: Bob Kinzel The Vermont Blueprint for Health is a public-private statewide program that’s designed to transform the delivery of health care. Now there’s solid evidence to demonstrate that the program can help reduce overall health care costs. The Blueprint program encourages primary care providers to create community health teams to develop a comprehensive treatment […]

Source: VT Digger  A bill that would delay the implementation of Green Mountain Care, the state’s planned universal public health care program, won’t make it out of committee. The bill was sent to the House Health Care Committee, which voted Wednesday on bills it plans to work through before crossover. H.858, which would push the […]

MONTPELIER — The Republican State Committee approved resolutions Saturday formally opposing Gov. Peter Shumlin’s single-payer health care plan, and putting more pressure on Lt. Gov. Phil Scott, the party’s only statewide candidate, to declare his own position. One resolution approved Saturday at the Montpelier Elks Club urges “legislative and statewide candidates to publicly oppose single-payer/government […]