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Rutland Herald By Peter Hirschfeld Vermont press bureau MONTPELIER — A battle of ideas will be waged with a book of numbers as the Shumlin administration this year continues to make its case for single-payer health care. A long-awaited report unveiled by administration officials last week has become the latest touchstone in a three-year-old debate […]

WCAX MONTPELIER, Vt. – Politicians, health advocates and journalists are wading through a new report outlining possible funding options for single-payer healthcare. Vermonters currently spend 20 cents of every dollar they earn on health care. Proponents of a state run health care system say we could be getting more for less. On Friday top officials […]

VTDigger [Posted By Andrew Stein On January 25, 2013} Gov. Peter Shumlin recommended two fiscal measures to the Legislature on Thursday that would mitigate rising health care costs, but would not prevent hikes for lower-income Vermonters. While Shumlin said during his budget address, “Vermonters currently in Catamount and VHAP (would) not suffer federally imposed cost […]

Rutland Herald By DAVE GRAMTHE Associated PressMONTPELIER — The two big academic medical centers serving Vermont, often seen as rivals in the past, announced Friday they are joining forces with 13 other Vermont hospitals and health clinics to form a new “accountable care organization” — OneCare Vermont — to focus on efficiency and quality in […]

VTDigger Representatives in the House Health Care Committee laid out their priorities last Thursday in the absence of Chair Mike Fisher, D-Lincoln, who was out of town. The concern most frequently raised by lawmakers was how to handle the elevated out-of-pocket health insurance costs slated to hit Vermont’s lower income populations in 2014. [1] At […]

Times Argus MONTPELIER — The 11 members of the House Committee on Health Care will dedicate much of the 2013 legislative session to solving a fiscal dilemma that threatens to spike insurance costs for nearly 20,000 Vermonters. Rep. Mike Fisher, a Lincoln Democrat and chairman of the health care committee, said he has grave concerns […]

  Burlington Free Press Written by NANCY REMSEN Free Press Staff Writer Mike Plageman’s remodeling crew was busy the week before Christmas finishing a job on a house at the base of Lincoln Peak at Sugarbush ski resort. “We could use another set of hands or two,” said Plageman, co-founder of Plageman, Gagnon and Daughters […]

VTDigger By Andrew Stein These cost estimates are from the Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security Education fund, which helps enroll Vermonters in state subsidized insurance programs, like Catamount and VHAP. These estimates are based on the shift of annual health insurance costs for lower income Vermonters when the exchange takes place, and they include […]

VTDigger Posted By Andrew Stein On December 5, 2012 @ 8:19 pm In News Briefs | Vermont officials subpoenaed Accretive Health Inc. this past summer after the medical billing services firm settled a suit with the state of Minnesota, agreeing to stay out of the state for six years. The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation […]

Rutland Herald By Peter HirschfeldStaff WriterMONTPELIER — Gov. Peter Shumlin says state health care subsidies for working-class Vermonters might be more generous than they need to be, and that some residents here could soon be facing higher insurance premiums and deductibles. Administration officials and lawmakers will spend much of the next year fine-tuning the “health […]