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By DANIEL BARLOW Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER – A single-payer health care advocate filed a complaint with the Attorney General Monday contesting the appointment of a consultant to the state’s Health Care Reform Commission. Dr. Deb Richter of Montpelier said that James Leddy, a former Vermont senator, should not serve on the legislative committee because […]

Burlington Free Press A health-care advocacy group is taking issue with one of two appointments made Friday to the state’s Health Care Reform Commission. The group Vermont Health Care for All argued Saturday that the appointment of former state Sen. Jim Leddy of Burlington violates the law passed this year that expanded the number of […]

By DANIEL BARLOW Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER – Vermont is looking to pay someone up to $300,000 to fully design three new health care models for the state. State officials sent out a request for proposals this month for the project, which is part of S.88, a new health care reform effort passed by the […]

By Louis Porter Vermont Press Bureau – Published: June 6, 2010 MONTPELIER – The state’s landmark Catamount health insurance program is not terminally ill, but it needs a checkup. A smaller-than-expected infusion of federal money and other factors mean the nearly four-year-old program needs help – about $3.8 million – from the state’s General Fund […]

By DANIEL BARLOW Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER – House lawmakers, for the second time this year, easily approved a major health care reform bill Thursday including a provision to track free drug samples given to doctors, setting up a showdown with the Senate. The two-hour floor debate Thursday focused little on the requirement that drug […]

By DANIEL BARLOW Vermont Press BureauMONTPELIER – The political battle over a plan to track the free pharmaceutical samples given to Vermont physicians by drug companies is far from over. House Health Care Committee lawmakers said Wednesday that they would fight to include a provision requiring the drug companies to report to the Vermont Attorney […]

By DANIEL BARLOW Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER – The Vermont Senate easily passed a major health care reform bill Tuesday night, but first lawmakers jettisoned a provision that would have allowed the state to track free drug samples given to doctors. The health care bill, S.88, passed with strong support in a voice vote shortly […]

By Thatcher Moats STAFF WRITER, Times Argus MONTPELIER – Singing, music, dancing and theater kept a health care rally in Montpelier festive Saturday, but the hundreds of people who took part were trying to hammer home a message they couldn’t take more seriously. We believe that health care is a human right for all people […]

FireDogLake Once again, the states are leading the way on health care reform. This past week, the Vermont House and Senate passed two versions of a bill that would essentially get a consultant to design three systems for health care in Vermont: something similar to Canadian single payer, something similar to a private system with […]

Burlington Free Press I agree with the gist of your editorial Health care study bill is logical step forward (April 11) that supporting a study of different options is a small but rational step forward to achieving universal access to health care in Vermont in a fiscally responsible way. However, the editorial needs to take […]