Vermont is taking on health care reform in a very measurable way. They will be setting policy for cost containment and providing every Vermont citizen with state of the art health care.
...Dr. Allan Ramsay, a primary care physician at Fletcher Allen Health Care, will take the lead on payment reform, workforce development and outreach. Dr. Karen Hein, a pediatrician from Jacksonville, will focus on developing a benefits package and concept framework. Con Hogan, former secretary of the Vermont Agency of Human Services, will address hospital budget rules, data and evaluation. Al Gobeille, who owns several restaurants in Chittenden County, will look at benefit design programs and examine innovative prevention programs currently being implemented by the business community in Vermont and elsewhere....
The waivers the Secretary of Health and Human Services are approving are often for states that have more stringent laws than the national law.
Green Mountain Care Board begins health care reform effort in earnest (click here)
The waivers the Secretary of Health and Human Services are approving are often for states that have more stringent laws than the national law.
…In order to actually enact the system, (click title to entry - thank you) the state needs a waiver from the Affordable Care Act health reform law. Currently, the federal government will start handing out state waivers in 2017 — three years after Vermont wants to implement its system. Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) hasintroduced an amendment that would move the waiver date up to 2014, an idea that President Obama has endorsed….
