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Valley News By Chris Fleisher Valley News Staff Writer .Lebanon — Diane Flint’s 85-year-old patient ended up in the emergency room recently and didn’t want to tell doctors about the pain in her abdomen. As it turned out, she needed her gall bladder removed. Flint has been trying ever since to get this tough, reserved […]

Valley News By Chris Fleisher Valley News Staff Writer Burlington — At a recent health care conference in Burlington, Church Hindes wanted to make something clear to the audience of physicians and hospital administrators in the audience. There’d been a lot of questions lately over the new accountable care organization that Fletcher Allen Health Care […]

Rutland Herald By DAVE GRAMThe Associated PressMONTPELIER — Vermont can move ahead with its plan for a public health care system following the outcome of this week’s presidential and gubernatorial elections and new assurances that the federal Affordable Care Act will not be repealed anytime soon, senior state officials involved with health care reform said […]

Jeb Spaulding, secretary of the Agency of Administration, talks to reporters at a press conference called by Sen. Randy Brock, the GOP candidate for governor. Photo by Anne Galloway The Shumlin administration said this week that a financing plan for a single-payer health insurance system is still on track to be completed by Jan. 15, […]

At the end of last month, the Green Mountain Care Board submitted an application for a $60 million State Innovation Model (SIM) grant to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. The grant would give the state the opportunity to build its data capacity and test new payment reform models that are aimed at cutting […]

VTDigger Posted By Andrew Stein Fletcher Allen Health Care and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have teamed up to propose a for-profit entity for administering Vermont Medicare benefits called OneCare Vermont, LLC. Earlier this month, the two academic medical centers — in conjunction with almost 80 other Vermont providers — submitted an application to the federal Centers […]

Times ArgusBy Peter HirschfeldVermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER — The newest comer to Vermont’s health care debate already has become one of its loudest voices, launching a midsummer advertising blitz that aims to spread the single-payer gospel to key demographics. The group Vermont Leads is running a pair of 30-second spots on network television stations across […]

Rutland Herald By Peter Hirschfeld Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER — Health care advocates and Democratic politicians on Thursday cheered a Supreme Court decision that preserves the foundation on which Gov. Peter Shumlin plans to build the nation’s first single-payer health care system. While he vowed earlier this week to proceed with a publicly funded, universal […]

Times Argus By Peter HirschfeldVermont Press BureauMONTPELIER — Proponents of single-payer health care are celebrating the arrival of a well-heeled patron prepared to spend heavily to advance the cause. But the introduction of out-of-state money from a national labor union has raised the eyebrows of at least one prominent reform activist and touched off a […]

VTDigger The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on the controversial health care law known as the Affordable Care Act later this month, and Vermont health care officials are preparing for what could be a variety of outcomes. Robin Lunge, director of health care reform for the Shumlin administration, said the state is looking […]