Posts Tagged ‘health care costs’
Vermont Senate passes health care bill that includes provision for a single payer option
Bill calls for custom-designed health care system MONTPELIER, VT — With an overwhelming 28-2 vote, the Senate today passed the Healthy Vermont bill (S.88). Senator Doug Racine (D-Chittenden) and the Health and Welfare Committee brought the bill to the Senate floor. The bill empowers the Health Care Reform Commission to hire a team of experts…
Read MoreHealth reform needs to end fee for service medicine
by Pearl Korn – As the health reform debate rages on, the central issue of how to improve care while reducing costs remains unaddressed. Fee-for-service has reduced doctors to assembly line pieceworkers, paid by the office visit and procedure rather than by effectiveness of treatment. The result is an inefficient, costly and dangerous system. It…
Read MoreHealth care costs to rise 9% in 2010
By the AP – Employers who offer health insurance coverage could see a 9% cost increase next year, and their workers may face an even bigger hit, according to a report Thursday from consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Costs will rise in part because workers worried about losing their jobs are using their health care more while…
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