VTDigger Yet another fiscal rift is emerging between the Shumlin administration and the Legislature. The administration is asking the Legislature to allocate $18.4 million annually to operate and maintain the state’s new health insurance marketplace — the web-based exchange called Vermont Health Connect [2]. But before the House Ways and Means Committee determines how to […]
Read moreVTDigger The Senate Health and Welfare Committee plans to vote this week on whether to recommend millions of dollars more in health insurance assistance for low- and middle-income Vermonters. And their proposal may very well call for leaving a contentious employer assessment on the table. The committee will make the recommendation to the Senate Appropriations […]
Read moreVTDiggerPosted By Andrew Stein On April 13, 2013 @ 3:40 am In Recent | 7 Comments The feds use the subsidies to cap premiums at a certain percentage of a household’s income, and the administration and the House Health Committee recommended subsidies that lower those caps by 1.5 percent. These subsidies are part […]
Read moreBurlington Free PressWritten by Nancy Remsen, Free Press Staff Writer MONTPELIER: Ethan Parke of Montpelier, a director of Vermont Health Care for All, urged lawmakers Wednesday to require the state’s nonprofit private hospitals to open meetings of their governing boards to the public. The public has a stake in the decisions that hospitals make, Parke […]
Read moreVTDiggerPosted By Andrew Stein On April 8, 2013 @ 11:05 pm Should Vermont hospitals be subject to the state’s open meeting law? That’s the question legislators will consider Wednesday at a joint hearing of the House and Senate health committees [1]. If House Bill 440 [2] is enacted, the government transparency law [3] would apply […]
Read moreVTDigger Posted By Andrew Stein On April 8, 2013 @ 10:17 pm Last week, Gov. Peter Shumlin created a 20-member business council to advise him on financing a publicly funded health care system. “It is to ensure that single payer is implemented as the governor plans in a timely way in 2017, with all risks […]
Read moreValley News White River Junction — With all the dramatic change taking place in medicine, Dr. Richard White is concerned that one voice is being lost in the debate among policy makers, insurance companies and the public — the doctor’s. Federal health care reform happened only with the blessing of insurance companies, said White, a […]
Read moreby Randy Capitani Deerfield Valley News WILMINGTON- Big changes in the health care system are coming soon to the state of Vermont and the Deerfield Valley. That was the message delivered by officials of the SVMC Deerfield Valley Campus and its parent company, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, at an information meeting held Tuesday afternoon at […]
Read moreTimes Argus Anya Rader Wallack is the chairwoman of the Green Mountain Care Board, the state board created to improve the overall health care system in Vermont with an emphasis on improving the health of the state’s residents while at the same time making health care more affordable. Herald business reporter Bruce Edwards interviewed Wallack […]
Read moreVermontbiz.com by Andrew Stein, vtdigger.org For the first time, Vermont health insurers disclosed a bundle of information about how much money they spend on executive salaries and how many patients are denied coverage. Two health insurance companies — in accordance with Act 150 from last legislative session — divulged CEO salaries, lobbying expenses, legal fees […]
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