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Associate Press MONTPELIER, Vermont — A leading advocate for single-payer health care in Vermont is pushing legislation that would require that hospital board meetings be subject to the state’s open meeting law. Dr. Deb Richter of the Vermont chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, says Vermont’s hospitals spend about $2 billion a year, […]

VTDiggerPosted By Andrew Stein On February 27, 2013 In dramatic fashion, the House Health Care Committee voted on Wednesday to resurrect a comprehensive budget bill from a premature “death.” The committee’s approval advances a penny per ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, a $4.5 million state subsidy for low-income health insurance and the repeal of an […]

VTDigger Over the next three fiscal years, the Green Mountain Care Board plans to crack down on hospital budgets to mitigate Vermont’s rising health care costs. The board is reeling in the limit on the amount hospitals can raise in revenues from patients. It is decreasing the patient revenue cap from 3.75 percent in fiscal […]

Rutland Herald At a news conference Wednesday, opponents of single-payer health care accused the Shumlin administration of covering up a politically toxic financing plan that would be used to fund the new system. The evidence was entirely circumstantial, and while the allegations will play well with the base, they’re unlikely to move the mainstream. But […]

VTDigger   Posted By Andrew Stein On February 24, 2013 @ 1:34 pm In News Briefs | 2 Comments Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility officials say the Shumlin administration’s decision to delay the tax plan for a publicly financed health care system is creating uncertainty for businesses and has led to the spread of misinformation. […]

VTDigger Posted By Andrew Stein On February 22, 2013 @ 4:47 am In Health A group of Republican representatives and opponents of a single-payer health system allege that the Shumlin administration withheld critical tax analyses from a so-called financing plan for a universal health care system. Vermonters for Health Care Freedom alleges that state officials […]

VTDigger   Posted By Andrew Stein On February 19, 2013 @ 10:29 pm In Recent | 9 Comments

VTDigger The Shumlin administration and top legislative leaders are planning to form a nine-member committee tasked with creating a financing plan to fund a single-payer health care system. These talks among state government leadership come roughly one month after the administration submitted an outline for a plan [1] that called for $1.6 billion in new […]

VTDigger Gov. Peter Shumlin’s $10.3 million proposal to fund health insurance subsidies is fraying at the seams. The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) said it is unwilling to fund roughly 20 percent of the subsidies’ cost, money which the administration was counting on. This fiscal year 2014 proposal [2]is composed of two parts: a […]

Rutland Herald MONTPELIER — Gov. Peter Shumlin last month unveiled a budget proposal that aims to ease health insurance costs for about 45,000 low- and middle-income Vermonters in 2014. But advocates say the state aid won’t bring the price of insurance to within reach of poor and working-class residents, and that failing additional appropriations, thousands […]