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VTDigger By Alan Panebaker For hours Thursday afternoon, advocates pleaded with the Green Mountain Care Board to ensure services are covered under a single-payer health care system. Members of the Vermont Workers’ Center, a group that supports health care reform, dominated much of the air time. Some asked that the board ensure coverage of dental […]

WCAX Montpelier, VT. —  A happy exchange over the health care exchange– lawmakers shook hands in congratulations Wednesday, as they passed one of the most controversial bills of the session out of conference committee. Everyone at this table signed the conference committee report and supports the bill going forward, everyone at this table and a […]

VTDigger The Senate passed H.559, the health care exchange bill, Tuesday evening, 20-7. The legislation allows Vermont to take advantage of federal subsidies and tax credits associated with the federal Affordable Care Act. The Shumlin administration plans to use the exchange as a stepping stone toward financing a single-payer health care system. The bill requires […]

Rutland Herald By Peter Hirschfeld Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER — The Senate this week is on course to approve a health care bill that could soon change the way thousands of Vermonters purchase insurance. Sen. Claire Ayer, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare, said Sunday that she expects a floor debate either […]

Stowe Reporter Green Mountain Care, First of two articles: By Lisa McCormack Fears that physicians will leave Vermont if the state enacts universal, single-payer health care may be unfounded. Many local physicians say they favor single-payer because it would lower their administrative costs and reduce their current paperwork headaches. Others support health-care reform because it […]

In an interview conducted for VPR news, Governor Peter Shumlin explains that single payer is still possible and necessary in Vermont, and that he is firmly committed to creating a single payer system in Vermont regardless of the outcome of the Supreme Court decision regarding the Affordable Care Act.   See below: Vermont Public Radio Bob Kinzel (Host) Governor […]

Seven DaysAn industry defector warns of outside influence in the single-payer debate By Kathryn Flagg Maybe you’ve seen the commercial [1]. It debuted on Vermont airwaves last month, and the message goes something like this: “Governor Peter Shumlin and the Democratic majorities in Montpelier want to completely uproot our health care system and spend more […]

The American Reporter by Randolph T. HolhutChief of AR Correspondents DUMMERSTON, Vt. — While the national media was fixated last week on the kabuki theater of the new Republican majority in the U.S. House voting to repeal last year’s health care reform bill, they missed another, more important, development in Vermont. As the House Republicans […]

VTDiggerThe complicated and controversial health care bill cleared a House committee Thursday after weeks of tinkering and some close votes. Eight members of the committee voted to approve the bill with the two Republicans on the committee, Jim Eckhardt and Patti Komline voting against. For nearly a month, members of the House Committee on Health […]

VPR The Shumlin Administration revealed a strategy on Tuesday that, at first glance, appears to undermine its own health care plan for small businesses. But as VPR’s Bob Kinzel reports, the Administration’s actions are geared to make it easier to implement a single-payer system. (Kinzel) Under the new federal health care law, states are required […]