News

NOTE: This is not an article on Vermont, as it is about hospital costs trends nationally, but it is relevant to Vermont as well, since hospital costs in Vermont, as elsewhere, are a large part of total health care costs. By Ron ShinkmanFierce Health Finance Although hospitals are cutting jobs and compensation, pay for their […]

Seven Days By Kathryn Flagg [06.05.13] On the surface, the Vermont Health CO-OP seems like the kind of endeavor the state would embrace with open arms. Using federal funds from so-called “Obamacare,” the South Burlington-based nonprofit wants to offer a member-owned alternative to much-maligned corporate insurance companies. All of its profits would be reinvested to […]

Rutland Heraldwww.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article By Art Edelstein, Correspondent Green Mountain Care, the state-mandated health care program that will affect businesses with less that 50 employees when implemented in 2014, has many in the business community confused and apprehensive about what the new law means for their companies. “It’s confusion wrapped up in mystery,” asserts George Malek, who […]

VTDigger Posted By Anne Galloway On May 22, 2013 A state regulatory agency has denied a license to the Vermont Health CO-OP to sell health care insurance in Vermont. The Vermont Health CO-OP sought a certificate of public good to sell health insurance in the new state exchange under the federal Affordable Care Act. The […]

VTDIgger Posted By Andrew Stein On May 21, 2013 When Gov. Peter Shumlin signed Act 48 into law in 2011, he set Vermont on a path toward a single payer health care system. Two years later, lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle are questioning his sincerity. And a strategy to draw up a […]

VTDigger Posted By Andrew Stein On May 19, 2013

VTDigger Posted By Andrew Stein On May 16, 2013 On Oct. 1, the state is slated to open the doors to Vermont Health Connect, Vermont’s new health insurance marketplace. Three months later, on Jan. 1, 2014, the web-based exchange will become the sole insurance marketplace for an estimated 118,000 Vermonters, who purchase individual plans or […]

VTDigger Posted By Andrew Stein On May 14, 2013 In a final-hour move, the Vermont House voted on Tuesday to strip a charge on health insurance premiums from Senate bill 152. The bill, which began this legislative session as a streamlining of the state’s health insurance rate review process, became the vehicle for financing the […]

VTDigger Posted By Andrew Stein The state Senate voted Monday to place a charge on health insurance premiums and extend an employer assessment to pay for the operation of the state’s new health insurance marketplace, called Vermont Health Connect. Senate bill 152, which began this legislative session as a streamlining of the state’s health insurance […]

VTDiggerPosted By Andrew Stein When the federal government gave the Shumlin administration permission in January to create a state-based insurance marketplace, the approval of Vermont Health Connect [2]was conditional. With fewer than two weeks left in the legislative session, a key condition — legislative approval of a self-sustaining financing plan — remains unmet. The Shumlin […]