Hospital budget caps set by Green Mountain Care Board
“Keeping a tight rein on the 2013 budgets is an important step in our efforts to build toward a single payer restructuring in the state,” said Anya Rader Walleck, the chair of the Green Mountain Care Board.
Brumsted named CEO of Fletcher Allen Health Care
The Brumsted appointment is significant both because of the large role that Fletcher Allen plays in the state’s overall delivery system, as well as the fact that it takes place just as the administration of Gov. Peter Shumlin is trying to set in place a single-payer system.
Davis: Canadian system not a model for Shumlin, as McClaughry asserts
The key flaw in the Canadian system is that it created huge demand with no cost containment strategy at all.
The apple pie papers, part 4: Advice for the quintessential Thanksgiving dessert
The best early winter pie takes not just one, but three apples — the Macoun, Calville Blanc d’Hiver and the Rhode Island Greening.
The apple pie papers, part 3: A lard-laden crust is a must
We are now reaching the peak of the apple pie season. Belle de Boskoop, the earliest of a trio of the best European culinary apples, has been available in some markets and co-ops for some three weeks now.
The apple pie papers, part 2: When in doubt, brave the sour varieties
The first of the big four base pie apples are coming into the markets beginning this week.
Vermont’s 2012 hospital budgets show dramatic drop in cost trajectory
Budgets totaling $2.059 billion for Vermont’s 14 hospitals were approved Thursday by Steve Kimbell, commissioner of the Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration (BISHCA).
Green Mountain Care Board members appointed
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 apple pie papers: In praise of the uncommon varieties
You can buy a Gravenstein or a Duchess to eat for lunch, but the secret to these uncommon varieties is that they are best for pies. And they are the harbingers of dozens of heirloom and uncommon apples that will flow through the local markets between now and mid November.
Hospital budget redux, Part 2
There is an Alice-in-Wonderland quality to the responses to the recent post on the Vermont hospital budget submissions for the fiscal year 2012.
