Vermont Enterprise Journal Consultant Brian Cina is introducing a invoice to implement publicly financed common well being care beginning with major care and psychological well being. Over 40 Home members have enthusiastically signed on as co-sponsors to this point. Senator Chris Bray will introduce a companion invoice within the Senate.
In accordance with a press release launched by Cina, the well being care system is in disaster. Vermonters are fighting excessive deductible insurance coverage and crushing medical debt. Self-rationing of care and prescribed drugs is now widespread. Major care clinicians are coping with insufficient reimbursement ranges, rising caseloads, and ever-increasing administrative burdens. The psychological well being care system is harassed to a breaking level. The Accountable Care Group has burned up huge monetary assets with little to point out for it. Hospitals are on shaky monetary floor. Workforce shortages result in wait occasions for affected person visits. This breakdown of our well being care infrastructure has been a catastrophe affecting all of us.
A financially sustainable answer is named for, and a public consensus is constructing across the concept of revisiting the groundbreaking ideas which have lain dormant in Vermont statute since they have been enacted in 2011. Precept #1 (18 VSA §9371) states: “The State of Vermont should guarantee common entry to and protection for top of the range, medically needed well being providers for all Vermonters.”
Different ideas within the statute on well being care reform converse to price containment, transparency, effectivity, accountability, and the preservation of major care. Sadly, in latest biennia, the Legislature has not fulfilled the entire ideas enacted into regulation greater than 10 years in the past and has propped up a system that’s laden with pricey paperwork as an alternative of confirmed methods used around the globe to scale back administration, lower your expenses, and ship care to all individuals.
Consultant Cina and Senator Bray have requested the Home and Senate management, the well being care committee chairs in each chambers, and coverage makers within the government department to acknowledge the urgency round this problem. Each Cina and Bray imagine that Vermonters deserve severe dialogue on this matter, daring and inventive pondering, and finally, legislative motion to regulate prices, to redevelop very important well being care infrastructure, and to lastly make well being care common.
The press and different media are invited to listen to extra about this proposal and to ask questions on the press/media convention scheduled for Thursday January 26, 2023 within the Cedar Creek Room, on the second flooring of the State Home.
What: Press/Media Convention; open to the general public
Date and Time: Thursday January 26, 2023 at Midday
Location: Cedar Creek Room, 2nd Ground, Vermont Statehouse
Audio system:
Consultant Brian Cina, P/D, Burlington
Senator Chris Bray, D, Addison District
Invoice Schubart (author, political commentator)
Mollie Willis (advocate, Rural Vermont)
Liz Schlegel (The Alchemist Basis)
Dr. Allan Ramsay, MD (former member Inexperienced Mountain Care Board)
Liz Medina (Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, invited)
