Vermont Chooses Single-Payer: Who Else Has an Appetite for Experimentation?
By JONATHAN HALVORSON This past Monday, the Vermont Senate passed a Single-Payer bill. The House had already passed a similar bill and the governor is friendly to the legislation, so all that stands...
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By ROGER COLLIER In just a few days, Vermont’s Governor Peter Shumlin will sign into law what the media is calling “single payer health care reform.” But is it? Vermont has certainly demonstrated more...
View ArticleVermont’s Bold Experiment
By DAVID DRANOVE I was delighted to see the lead article in Health Affairs describing Vermont’s new single payer health care financing system. Harvard Professor William Hsiao and his coauthors describe...
View ArticleLet’s Decriminalize Our Health Records
By Adrian Gropper, MD The governor of Vermont, Peter Shumlin, devoted all of his annual speech to the problem of drug addiction. On the national news, Shumlin points out the link between prescription...
View ArticleMore Evidence That Patient Centered Medical Homes Don’t Work
By Al Lewis A state the size of Vermont claiming savings of $120,000,000 through a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) program should raise eyebrows. North Carolina made similar claims about its PCMH...
View ArticleVermont Chooses Single-Payer: Who Else Has an Appetite for Experimentation?
By JONATHAN HALVORSON This past Monday, the Vermont Senate passed a Single-Payer bill. The House had already passed a similar bill and the governor is friendly to the legislation, so all that stands...
View ArticleSingle Payer in Vermont? Well, Not Exactly
By ROGER COLLIER In just a few days, Vermont’s Governor Peter Shumlin will sign into law what the media is calling “single payer health care reform.” But is it? Vermont has certainly demonstrated more...
View ArticleVermont’s Bold Experiment
By DAVID DRANOVE I was delighted to see the lead article in Health Affairs describing Vermont’s new single payer health care financing system. Harvard Professor William Hsiao and his coauthors describe...
View ArticleLet’s Decriminalize Our Health Records
By Adrian Gropper, MD The governor of Vermont, Peter Shumlin, devoted all of his annual speech to the problem of drug addiction. On the national news, Shumlin points out the link between prescription...
View ArticleMore Evidence That Patient Centered Medical Homes Don’t Work
By Al Lewis A state the size of Vermont claiming savings of $120,000,000 through a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) program should raise eyebrows. North Carolina made similar claims about its PCMH...
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