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By Aimee Miles Kaiser Health News Feb 08, 2011 Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, who was elected last November after promising to reform health care in the state, unveiled a bill Tuesday that would abolish most forms of private health insurance and move state residents into a publicly funded insurance pool. His much anticipated proposal lays […]

By Aimee Miles Kaiser Health News Feb 08, 2011 Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, who was elected last November after promising to reform health care in the state, unveiled a bill Tuesday that would abolish most forms of private health insurance and move state residents into a publicly funded insurance pool. His much anticipated proposal lays […]

By Nancy Remsen, Free Press MONTPELIER — The woman who Gov. Peter Shumlin hired to guide his health reform effort presented lawmakers Tuesday with the administration’s roadmap — an 80-page bill — leading to a consolidated, publicly financed system that would provide medical coverage to all Vermonters.   “We don’t think we have all the […]

Rutland Herald As he pushes forward with health-care reform, Gov. Peter Shumlin wants to divorce the issue of funding from the process of developing a single-payer design. The strategy, he has admitted, is at least a little bit political. He said he doesn’t want the reform debate weighed down by the controversy that would accompany […]

By Anne Galloway vtdigger Physicians were in attendance at the Statehouse on Thursday. They came dressed in lab coats and scrubs, and stethoscopes dangling around their necks. The ailment they came to cure was the medical system itself: In a rare “house call” to the Capitol, they issued a prescription for Vermont’s Byzantine system of […]

vtdigger Watch video footage of Sen. Bernie Sanders requesting from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this morning a waiver for Vermont to pursue a single-payer health care system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH7cnWA2KVg&feature=player_embedded  

By: DAVE GRAM 01/23/11 12:13 PM Associated Press When Harvard economist and international health care consultant William Hsiao proposed that Vermont become the first state to move to a single-payer system of health insurance, the immediate response from just about every quarter was to ask a question. The Vermont Medical Society wants to know how […]

Times ArgusBy Kevin O’ConnorSTAFF WRITER RUTLAND — Middlebury’s Dr. Jack Mayer knows that most patients want health care reform to cut rising prices. But he, along with a growing group of Vermont medical providers, hopes to point a scalpel at piles of related paperwork. Back in 1976 when Mayer opened his first pediatric office in […]

vtdigger Gov. Peter Shumlin announced Thursday that he would look to cut health care costs first—then figure out how to pay for a single-payer plan for Vermont. In a press conference, Shumlin repeatedly said that extending coverage to all Vermonters, and finding a way to pay for the new system, is not a big deal—compared […]

Vtdigger Editor’s note: Anne Galloway contributed to this report. Video of Hsiao’s presentation and a press conference with Senate president pro tem John Campbell and Speaker of the House Shap Smith are at the end of this report. More information was added to this story at 5:30 a.m. The very day the U.S. House of […]