Galloway, Davis talk about the GOP, budget and health care
In this 40-minute radio conversation about the 2011 legislative session, Davis and Galloway talk about the down-ticket races, health care reform and party politics.
Vermont bill will mandate insurance pay for home births
The U.S. ranks 30th in infant mortality, according to CDC data, wedged between Poland and Slovakia.
Welch launches bipartisan organization to make drugs more affordable and lower health care spending
Reps. Peter Welch and Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) on Thursday launched the bipartisan Congressional Affordable Medicines Caucus.
Doctors group: Vermont health bill mislabeled “single payer”
The Vermont plan promises a public program open to all residents of the state in 2017, but even then it would allow a continuing role for private insurance. This would negate many of the administrative savings that could be attained by a true single-payer program, and opens the way for the continuation of multi-tiered care.
With Mark Johnson: Hamilton Davis analyzes the single-payer health care reform effort
Hamilton Davis talks with Mark Johnson of WDEV about the difficulties the Shumlin administration will face as it embarks on its health care reform plan.
McClaughry: Another study of single payer!
Do we really need another study?
Sen. Kevin Mullin, the only Republican member of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, seems to think so. According to a recent VPR story, Mullin would not agree to make the committee’s vote to report the Green Mountain Care bill unanimous unless the committee agreed to include his amendment to “thoroughly study the impact of implementing a single payer system well before it’s put into place.” Mullin told VPR’s Bob Kinzel that he “thinks the study will help deal with the fears that many people have raised with him.”
Davis: A timeline for health care reform
If the federal waivers are not enacted in 2014 then the fruit bearing part of GMC, the time when Vermonters are actually able to sign on to the program, will have to wait until 2017.
House advances bill to require insurers to cover home births
As more than a dozen young mothers and their children looked on as the House Wednesday voted to advance a bill mandating that health insurers in Vermont offer maternity benefits for midwife services. The bill also requires that parents notify hospitals of the planned home births in advance, so that the hospitals can be better prepared to handle any complications that might lead to transport.
House-Senate health care compromise set for final passage
After months of struggle over big questions and mind-numbing minutiae, the leaders in the Vermont House and Senate celebrated a moment of triumph on Tuesday: They came to final agreement on the single-payer health care legislation.
VBSR: Health care reform is economic development
We have spent 20 years advocating for a health care system that covers all Vermonters, cuts unnecessary costs and de-couples insurance from employment.
