Report slams women’s prison facility
Several legislators said it is time to think about an alternative to the aging Chittenden prison.
Shumlin administration opposes hospice waiver
Proponents consider the waiver important because doctors are often reluctant to make a six-month prognosis.
Vermonters don’t utilize hospice until too late
Medicare’s hospice benefit has failed to keep pace with evolving needs. It reflects the way Americans died 30 years ago, not the way they die today, and the mismatch creates a particular hardship for small, rural and nonprofit hospice providers.
Bill removes barriers to hospice, palliative care
Vermont ranks near the bottom nationwide in hospice use: Medicare spending on hospice care per Vermonter is well below the national average.
Vermonters with disabilities press lawmakers to restore funding for services
Nicole LeBlanc: “When agencies get cut, services get cut. We’re concerned that services won’t be individualized anymore.”
Sanders decries cuts, proposes millionaires’ tax
Sen. Bernie Sanders spelled out what the “waste and excess” in government spending included and introduced his own proposal to reduce the deficit — by spreading the sacrifice to the rich.
Hundreds protest budget cuts for mentally ill, developmentally disabled
Nearly a thousand advocates for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled thronged the Statehouse Wednesday to deliver a straightforward message to their legislators: Don’t cut services.
Story + video: Whistleblower says insurers will try to undermine single-payer
“(Insurers) have probably already developed a much more comprehensive plan than this one to try to derail what’s going on here in Montpelier,” Potter said.
On the chopping block: Community Services Block Grants
Vermont’s poor will find their primary safety net in tatters if a provision in President Barack Obama’s $3.73 trillion budget proposal takes effect next fall, advocates say.
Vermont Institute launches Cuban cultural exchange
Hernandez accepted the invitation from the Vermont Institute on the Caribbean to form a cultural exchange partnership – he believes it will benefit both Vermonters and Cubans.
