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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 […]

The Harvard Crimson William C. Hsiao is not an imposing man. He stands barely five feet eight inches tall and at age 75 affects an air of unpretentious expertise. He speaks slowly, in accented English—a remainder of his immigrant childhood—that expresses his ideas simply and logically, point by point. Despite his approachability and clarity, the […]

Amednews.com A universal health care program in Vermont would cost between $8.2 billion and $9.5 billion a year by 2020. But the state’s existing health system would cost $10 billion by 2020, according to an estimate released Nov. 1 by the Vermont Legislative Joint Fiscal Office and the Vermont Dept. of Banking, Insurance, Securities and […]

amednews.com A universal health care program in Vermont would cost between $8.2 billion and $9.5 billion a year by 2020. But the state’s existing health system would cost $10 billion by 2020, according to an estimate released Nov. 1 by the Vermont Legislative Joint Fiscal Office and the Vermont Dept. of Banking, Insurance, Securities and […]

VTDigger The Shumlin administration’s signature “single-payer” style health care plan could save as much as $1.834 billion by 2020, according to a report released on Tuesday. That’s the best-case scenario. Under more conservative estimates, the report from the Joint Fiscal Office and Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration, [2] puts savings at […]

Governing the States and Localities By John Buntin At a time when states are struggling to comply with healthcare reform, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin sees his state’s push for a single-payer system as common sense. At a time when states are struggling to comply with the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Vermont’s ambitious […]

VTDiggerBy Alan Panebaker The five members of the recently appointed Green Mountain Care Board have their work cut out for them. Anya Rader Wallack, the board’s chair, reeled off a daunting to-do list for each of the new members at the board’s first official meeting on Tuesday. Dr. Allan Ramsay, a primary care physician at […]

VTDigger Editor’s note: This article is by Randolph T. Holhut; it first appeared in The Commons, commonsnews.org [2]. BRATTLEBORO—There is a direct relationship between health and economic vitality. The lack of good health care has a significant effect on Vermont’s economy and the lives of its residents. That was the takeaway from the prominent health […]

VTDigger Gov. Peter Shumlin Tuesday appointed Anya Rader Wallack, the consultant who has been leading the design of a single-payer health care system for Vermont, to chair the new, five-member Green Mountain Care Board that will oversee management of the health care system in the state. The new board will continue to design some aspects […]