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National Post The Canadian health-care system may be plagued by countless stories of lengthy wait times and crowded emergency rooms, but a new study shows the amount of time and money spent on administrative duties is a fraction of that required by the U.S. system. The study from the University of Toronto and New York’s […]

VTDigger A nasty tit-for-tat ensued last week between a GOP operative and the Vermont Democratic Party over Gov. Peter Shumlin’s single-payer health care plan, and the Dems, who aggressively counter-attacked, won the dogfight. Darcie Johnston, a Republican politico and head of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, an anti-single payer group, issued the first salvo on […]

Rutland Herald By Brent CurtisSTAFF WRITERGov. Peter Shumlin said he knew there were doubters in the audience he addressed at universal health care forum in Rutland on Monday. “I know not everyone in this room or in Vermont thinks we’re on the right track with health care,” Shumlin said to the roughly 100 people gathered […]

Daily JournalAP, Dave Gram MONTPELIER, Vt. — Hospitals, doctors, drug companies, insurers and others with a stake in health care spent more than $750,000 lobbying at the Vermont Statehouse this year as lawmakers debated landmark legislation designed to put Vermont on the road toward universal health insurance. But exactly how much was spent on the […]

amednews.com Chicago — Barbara McAneny, MD, says insurers’ inability to consistently pay claims correctly is costing her practice a lot of money — hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation in my own practice and figured if I could get all of the implemented changes the AMA is working for, […]

amednews.com Chicago — Barbara McAneny, MD, says insurers’ inability to consistently pay claims correctly is costing her practice a lot of money — hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation in my own practice and figured if I could get all of the implemented changes the AMA is working for, […]

VTDiggerPosted by Anne Galloway The average chief executive officer’s compensation at a Standard and Poor 500 company is $11 million, according to Executive Paywatch, a website sponsored by the AFL-CIO [2]. J. Wayne Leonard CEO of Entergy Corp., the company that owns Vermont Yankee, for example, made $8.2 million in 2010, or about 249 times […]

David Goodman, Mother Jones As Gov. Peter Shumlin took his spot on the granite steps of the Vermont State House, a row of people fanned out behind him wearing bright red t-shirts proclaiming, “Health care is a human right.” The slogan sounded noble, and wildly unrealistic. Until the governor spoke. “We gather here today to […]

Burlington Free Press MONTPELIER — Three second-year medical students wearing white jackets stood on the edge of a crowd of more than 200 people who had come to watch Gov. Peter Shumlin sign a law that puts Vermont on the road toward a consolidated health care system, publicly financed and covering all Vermont residents. “We […]

The New York Times By ABBY GOODNOUGH MONTPELIER, Vt. — Many people move to Vermont in search of a slower pace; Dr. Deb Richter came in 1999 to work obsessively toward a far-fetched goal. She wanted Vermont to become the first state to adopt a single-payer health care system, run and paid for by the […]